Hi

one way, type 50 in the first cell, underneath it type 49, then select both
cells, now go to the fill handle on the 49 and drag down.

Cheers
JulieD

"oesqueen" wrote in message
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I am trying to get excel to do decending numbers from 50 to 1 in a column
and
no matter what I try it still will not do it. What am I doing wrong?