Thanks for your help guys ... it is a beautiful thing you have come up with
.... and will save me loads of hassle. It works a treat when I drag the
formula down. However, is it possible to modify it so that when I drag the
formula to the right the relative column references also change? (my dataset
is 10 columns wide) i.e. I need cell cell L4 to= A4 (and L5 to=A8 and so on
down ... that problem you have already solved), but then I need to drag that
across so that M4 =B4 and so on to the right. Can that be built into the
indirect formula, or do I have to drag across and then manually change the
"A" to B, C, D etc across the page?

Thanks again for help so far,

Tim.

"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi Tim

In cell L4
=INDIRECT("A"&(Row()-3)*4
Copy down as required

Regards

Roger Govier


Tim wrote:
In a worksheet I have got a set of data where column A contains a week ending
date and then in columns B,C,D etc are the data refering to that week (so A4
is 7/10/04, B4 is 7/17/04 and so on).
Elsewhere on the spreadsheet I want to copy every fourth row from the
above-mentioned data set, so cell L4= cell A4, then L5= cell A8, L6= cell A12
and so on.

Any ideas how to do it in a way that means I can easily drag a formula down,
rather than what I have done so far which is to copy every cell and then gone
through and deleted 3 weeks, miss a row and then delete the next 3 weeks data
etc?

Tim.