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MartinW MartinW is offline
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Default Copy/Paste array formulae from the newsgroup

Hi Group,

Can anyone explain this behaviour? Often when I copy
and paste an array formula from the newsgroups, the
formula will work straight away even though it hasn't
been committed with Ctrl+Shift+Enter and there are no
curly braces around it. If I then do an F2+Enter the formula
will fall down and requires a C+S+E to recommit it.

Take this example from a recent Bob Phillips post.

=MAX(IF(A1:A1000<"",ROW(A1:A1000)))

If I paste it anywhere outside column A, and then start
putting data in column A, the formula will correctly
return last row that has a number in col A, even though
it is an array formula and has not been committed
with C+S+E and there are no curly braces around it.

Any ideas why?

Regards
Martin