If you wanted to use Find & Replace, and you have that same formula
repeated in many cells, then highlight the cells, do CTRL-H and use
the following:

Find What: !$E
Replace with: !E
click Replace All.

(removes the $ from the column reference)

Find What: E$
Replace with: E
click Replace All.

(removes the $ from the row reference)

Find What: $
Replace with: (leave blank)
click Replace All.

(removes all $)

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Jul 29, 3:32*pm, Mr. Low wrote:
Hi,

I notice *that all the formulas link from one work book to another are in
form of "absolute" cell refrence.

Eg. ='[Budget 2010.xls]jh'!$E$222

This does not serve my need as I need to copy the formulas across the
spreasheet.

Usually I would remove the $ manually before copying across.

May I know if there is a way of changing the formula from absolute to
relative, i.e. removing the $ in row only, column only or both *automatically?

Thanks

Low

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