I am not totally following your instructions. What is 'i' and what is 'a'?
Or better yet, can you email me an example?

"Don Guillett" wrote:

for i=1 to 685 step 70
cells(i,"a")=??
next i

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"cbpfaff" wrote in message
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I want to have the program select every 70th cell and put a symbol in it.
The population is 685 cells. Can excel do this with out me having to move
and manually select?