try it w/o the fill handle. select the cell AND other cells you want
fillededitfilldown

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Brenda" wrote in message
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I often have to copy data from a cell into the 4 cells below it. I use
the
fill handle to do this. Because it is often numbers, Excel assumes i want
to
fill a series and not just copy the data. Is there a way to default this
to
always copy instead of filling in series?