glad to help

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"KG" wrote in message
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Thank you (and thanks to Don Guillett, who had the same suggestion). Using
Column(b1) instead of ,2 does the trick

"Alan Beban" wrote:

KG wrote:
I have a 10 year discounted cash flow schedule where the discount
factor is a
variable chosen by the workbook user. I have also set up a discount
factor
table so that the appropriate discounting factors can be inserted
under each
column.

The formula for year 1 (=Column 1) of the cash flow schedule is:
=VLOOKUP($C$27,$C$63:$N$82,2)
I copied the formula across the row and then manually changed the 3rd
argument of the formula to 3, 4, 5 and so on. This was not a huge
editing job
but, in anticipation of future schedules with 20 columns, I'm
wondering if
there is a better way to write this formula, eliminating the need for
manual
edits.
Change the ,2 to ,COLUMN(B1)

Alan Beban