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Dana DeLouis
 
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Microsoft acknowledges there is an "issue" with the drag feature. In Excel
2003, this problems starts for me at 0.144, the same as Dave. If you just
add 0.001 to the cell above and drag down, you can usually go a little
further till computer rounding issues kick in. For me, it was able to go to
0.688 before computer rounding problems started. Microsoft recommends using
the Round function as Dave has shown, or using Edit | Fill | Series. I
assume that Edit | Fill | Series uses some sort of built-in rounding, and
this is why Microsoft recommends this over selecting two cells, and dragging
down. A usual quick and dirty technique is to drag down like you have done
to get the value of the bottom cell. Then, redo this with Edit | Fill |
Series and insert a stop value.

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Dana DeLouis
Win XP & Office 2003


"EXCELNCBOY" wrote in message
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I am trying to resolve an issue that several of our users have been
experiencing.

I've been able to duplicate it on all of our systems. Example: Type .101
in Cell A1 and then type .102 in Cell A2. Select both cells and then drag
to
fill all the cells in a series to cell 1000. At some point(most cases
line
564, the format changes from .xxx to .xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). This has
resolved
in many issues when doing tables and charts.

Running XP SP1 and Office 2003 SP1.

Any suggestions.

Thanks.