I'm sorry, I was under the impression that you were solely interested in
*copying*.

If we're talking about *filling*, there's a dialog box that can help you
*fill* easily and quickly, if you're looking to go down a 1,000 rows or
across a couple hundred columns, and accomplish this without having to
"drag" the cells.

Say you want to number the rows from A2 to A1002, from 1 to 1000.

Enter 1 in A2 and click back in it to select it, then,
<Edit <Fill <Series
Since you're filling down, click "Columns",
Then "Step Value" = 1
"Stop Value" = 1000
Then <OK
And you're done!
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RD

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"David Thyer" wrote in message
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For example, I type "Month" in A1 as a column heading. Then I type "1"
into
A2, and "2" into A3. Then I select the range A2:A3. Finally I drag the
little
square at the bottom right of the selection down for the required number
of
rows, and the new values generated into cells A4 downwards have increasing
values, 3, 4, 5 etc. onwards.

When I try what you suggested, I just get the value in the cell repeated,
e.g. the value 2 repeated. Maybe I am doing it wrong?

Thanks,

David

"RagDyer" wrote:

Your terminology of "growing it" is unfamiliar to me.

Can you relate to me what the procedure that I described does *not* do in
"quite the same way" that your *growing it* does do?
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"David Thyer" wrote in message
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Hi RagDyeR,

Thanks for that. It doesn't seem to extend the range in quite the same
way
as growing it, just copies the last value, but by having a dummy first
column
using this method, and then double clicking for the real columns, as
per
Jaleel's suggestion, it gets me there.

Thanks again,

David

"RagDyeR" wrote:

You can just about do that.

Click in the cell containing the data or formula to copy.
Click in the 'name box' (left of formula bar).
Type in *last* cell address, say A300.
Hold down <Shift and hit <Enter

This selects the range, with the focus in your first, original cell.

Now, to complete the copy,
Hit <F2,
Then <Ctrl <Enter

And you're done!
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RD
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"David Thyer" <David wrote in message
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Often when I'm doing a quick mortgage spreadsheet, I enter the first
couple
of lines, then grow the range downwards by dragging the grow tool at
the
bottom right of the selected range. This works, but it is a bit of a
pain
when I am growing it to a large number of rows, as it often scrolls
too
far.
It would be nice to be able to right-click on the grow tool (the
square
at
the bottom right corner of the selected cell or range) and then type
in a
number of lines to grow.

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