"Neil" wrote in message
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If you can already do this please let me know, i get fed up with entering
$
each time I want to make it an absolute reference

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Last week, someone posted this suggestion:

"You can use F4 to toggle through the different styles of absolute
references. =$A1, =A$1, =$A$1."

Doesn't work in Excel 2000, but it might work if you have a later version.