Ooops. I was thinking about the first post where the op was copying down
rows... My Bad. Thanks for catching that...

To avoid the performance hit associated with column() and row() functions
(volatile) you might consider just putting the number you want into a cell
and dragging it to increment the value. You can then just (relative)
reference the cell.
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Elkar" wrote:

Actually, if copying across columns, you'd want to use the COLUMN() function
rather than ROW().

COLUMN(C:C) would return a value of 3 (since C is the third column). When
copied to the right, C:C would increment to D:D and thus return 4, etc...

HTH,
Elkar


"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

You can use the Row() function for that...

=VLOOKUP(K4,$A$3:$C$714,Row() - 1,FALSE)

Note that this makes the function volatile though which could negatively
effect performance...
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"pulling my hair out" wrote:

Is there a way to get the cell # that you want to return data from to change
as you copy it across several columns? (i.e. ",3,false) ,4, false) .5,false))

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

=VLOOKUP(K4,$A$3:$C$714,3,FALSE)

The $ fixes that range so that the address (either row or column or both) won't
change when you copy that formula.



Copying VLOOKUP formulas wrote:

I have the following formula inserted into a cell. I know it works because
it returns the correct value.

=VLOOKUP(K4,A3:C714,3,FALSE)

I now need to copy this same formula in the same column over about 700 rows
of data. The "K4" will obviously change since that's the value I'm looking
for, but how do I lock the range table, i.e. "A3:C714", so it won't increase
when I copy the formulas down? Also, is there something I need to do in
Paste Special to make the formula work in the other rows? I've tried
everything and I can't get the formula to copy correctly. I obviously don't
want to retype it 700 times.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

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Dave Peterson