In EXCEL 2007 try the following:-

Office Button / Excel Options (lower right hand side) / Formulas (2nd option
down on left hand side) / Working with formulas (2nd option down on right
hand side) / make sure that R1C1 reference style is not selected (that is, it
does not have a green tick in it)

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Thanks!



"mac" wrote:

my default used to be column a, column b etc, somehow it has been changed to
column 1, column 2 etc. how do I change it back? Because of the default
change it changes my formulas to sum(R[1] - C[2] etc.