It sounds like your calculations are set to Manual instead of Automatic.

Select TOOLS
Select OPTIONS
Click on the CALCULATIONS tab
Change the setting to AUTOMATIC
Click OK

Or, if you'd rather leave calculations as Manual, then just hit F9 whenever
you want to update your formula values.

HTH,
Elkar

"cfiser" wrote:

=SUM(A1+A2) IN CELL A3
=SUM(B1+B2) IN CELL B3, but when i copy the formula from cell A3 to cell B3,
it changes the everything correctly except is carries the A3 calculation down
to B3 - it doesn't add the current cell information.

"Bernard Liengme" wrote:

How do you do the copy?
What formula shows in the Formula Bar for B3?
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"cfiser" wrote in message
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I am trying to copy a basic addition formula from 1 cell to another...When
I
do this it copies the cells correctly but gives me the answer from the
previous cell copied from.
example
A1 = 100, A2 = 100 so A3 would be A1+A2=A3 = 200
if i copy that formula from A3 to B3 I get the same ending firgure even if
my numbers in B1 and B2 are different.