Make sure that the cells getting the formulas are formatted as General (anything
but Text).

It could be that the cell that gets your initial formula is the offender!



Greg L. wrote:

I'm trying to merge three columns into one (first name, middle initial, last
name). I then want to copy the formula down but it's only incrementing the
last cell in the formula.

here's what it's doing:
=q2&" "&R2&" "&p2
=q2&" "&R2&" "&p3
=q2&" "&R2&" "&p4
=q2&" "&R2&" "&p5
=q2&" "&R2&" "&p6

How do I get it to increment each reference without doing it manually? I'd
like it to be like this:

=q2&" "&R2&" "&p2
=q3&" "&R3&" "&p3
etc.

thanks.

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Dave Peterson