Maybe you started with a bad example.

You can only go down Column E for 4 cells since you'll then run into the
contents of E1, where you started from ... right ? ? ?

So, guessing that you want to drag a formula *down* a column and reference
the contents of a row, let's try this scenario:

A1 to AX1 contains the numbers 10 to 500.

To copy those values down Column E, starting at E2,
enter this formula in E2 and drag down to copy as needed:

=INDEX($1:$1,ROW(1:1))

If the values were in A5 to AX5,
then starting in E6 you would use:

=INDEX($5:$5,ROW(1:1))

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I have a excel xls that I will create into a very large project. the
setup is as follows for my test.

a1 = 1
b1 = 2
c1 = 3
d1 = 4

I then want:

e1 = a1
so i put =a1 in cell e1, however I want e2 to = b1, and e3 to = c1 and
so on.
I do not want to manually insert =(cell) in each cell that I want to
transpose to. So what kind of formula could I use to complete this
task. I would like to drag formula down the e column.

Please help. I have no idea on how to write such a formula please
construct.

Thanks


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