Greg,

That thing is called the Fill Handle. If you hold Ctrl, it will stop
incrementing the numbers. Be sure you're still holding Ctrl when you
release the mouse button.

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Earl Kiosterud
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"Greg" wrote in message
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I have some data that I would like to copy down and want to click the black
box in the lower right corner to do so. The problem is the data is a
number
and when I do it Excel assumes that I want the next row to be that number
plus 1. Is there anyway that you can turn that off so that it copies the
same number the entire way?