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Grow a range by # of lines by right click on grow tool & type num
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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Grow a range by # of lines by right click on grow tool & type num
Hi,
If you are trying to copy down a formula to the end of the range, why not trying for a double click on the grow tool of the cell containing the formula? I feel this is what you wished to do. "David Thyer" wrote: 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Grow a range by # of lines by right click on grow tool & type
Hi Jaleel,
Thanks for that suuggestion. It works if I first grow the list of values in Column A, month number, to the maximum value I want, e.g. 300 for 25 years. However, the case I most commonly have is where none of the columns extend down very far yet. Currently I select the whole bottom row, and then grow by dragging the grow tool. I could grow just column A by dragging the grow tool, then select the bottom row of the other columns, and then double click the grow tool as you suggest, but that still involves first manually growing a selection to 300 rows. If there was a way to automatically generate the month number column, up to a required value, then together with your double-click suggestion that would be a great solution, but I don't know any way to do that. Thanks again, David "Jaleel" wrote: Hi, If you are trying to copy down a formula to the end of the range, why not trying for a double click on the grow tool of the cell containing the formula? I feel this is what you wished to do. "David Thyer" wrote: 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Grow a range by # of lines by right click on grow tool & type
Try this:
1) Go to the cell where you want the bottom of column A to be (say A1000). 2) Go to A1001 and enter a period or some other marker. 3) Navigate back to the top of the spreadsheet by CTRL + up arrow. Select the cell (assume in A1) whose contents you want to fill down. Press SHIFT+CTRL+Down Arrow+Enter and you're done. "David Thyer" wrote: Hi Jaleel, Thanks for that suuggestion. It works if I first grow the list of values in Column A, month number, to the maximum value I want, e.g. 300 for 25 years. However, the case I most commonly have is where none of the columns extend down very far yet. Currently I select the whole bottom row, and then grow by dragging the grow tool. I could grow just column A by dragging the grow tool, then select the bottom row of the other columns, and then double click the grow tool as you suggest, but that still involves first manually growing a selection to 300 rows. If there was a way to automatically generate the month number column, up to a required value, then together with your double-click suggestion that would be a great solution, but I don't know any way to do that. Thanks again, David "Jaleel" wrote: Hi, If you are trying to copy down a formula to the end of the range, why not trying for a double click on the grow tool of the cell containing the formula? I feel this is what you wished to do. "David Thyer" wrote: 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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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! -- HTH, RD ================================================== === Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ================================================== === "David Thyer" <David wrote in message ... 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Grow a range by # of lines by right click on grow tool & type
Hi Dave F,
I think I must be getting the SHIFT+CTRL+Down Arrow+Enter combination wrong, because it doesn't seem to create any new values. Thanks anyway, David "Dave F" wrote: Try this: 1) Go to the cell where you want the bottom of column A to be (say A1000). 2) Go to A1001 and enter a period or some other marker. 3) Navigate back to the top of the spreadsheet by CTRL + up arrow. Select the cell (assume in A1) whose contents you want to fill down. Press SHIFT+CTRL+Down Arrow+Enter and you're done. "David Thyer" wrote: Hi Jaleel, Thanks for that suuggestion. It works if I first grow the list of values in Column A, month number, to the maximum value I want, e.g. 300 for 25 years. However, the case I most commonly have is where none of the columns extend down very far yet. Currently I select the whole bottom row, and then grow by dragging the grow tool. I could grow just column A by dragging the grow tool, then select the bottom row of the other columns, and then double click the grow tool as you suggest, but that still involves first manually growing a selection to 300 rows. If there was a way to automatically generate the month number column, up to a required value, then together with your double-click suggestion that would be a great solution, but I don't know any way to do that. Thanks again, David "Jaleel" wrote: Hi, If you are trying to copy down a formula to the end of the range, why not trying for a double click on the grow tool of the cell containing the formula? I feel this is what you wished to do. "David Thyer" wrote: 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Grow a range by # of lines by right click on grow tool & type
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? -- Regards, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "David Thyer" wrote in message ... 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! -- HTH, RD ================================================== === Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ================================================== === "David Thyer" <David wrote in message ... 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Grow a range by # of lines by right click on grow tool & type
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? -- Regards, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "David Thyer" wrote in message ... 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! -- HTH, RD ================================================== === Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ================================================== === "David Thyer" <David wrote in message ... 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Grow a range by # of lines by right click on grow tool & type
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! -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "David Thyer" wrote in message ... 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? -- Regards, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "David Thyer" wrote in message ... 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! -- HTH, RD ================================================== === Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ================================================== === "David Thyer" <David wrote in message ... 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Grow a range by # of lines by right click on grow tool & type
Brilliant! Sorry for the confusion about filling vs. copying. The grow tool
seems to extend series just by dragging. Many thanks, David "RagDyer" wrote: 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! -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "David Thyer" wrote in message ... 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? -- Regards, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "David Thyer" wrote in message ... 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! -- HTH, RD ================================================== === Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ================================================== === "David Thyer" <David wrote in message ... 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Just for info............
The "grow tool" is actually named "fill handle". But I kinda like grow tool also<g Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:25:02 -0700, David Thyer wrote: Brilliant! Sorry for the confusion about filling vs. copying. The grow tool seems to extend series just by dragging. Many thanks, David "RagDyer" wrote: 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! -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "David Thyer" wrote in message ... 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? -- Regards, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "David Thyer" wrote in message ... 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! -- HTH, RD ================================================== === Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ================================================== === "David Thyer" <David wrote in message ... 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Aha. That explains why when I searched the help for "fill handle" nothing
came up! Using the words "fill handle" I've found a page headed "Fill data in worksheet cells" which looks very useful. Many thanks, David "Gord Dibben" wrote: Just for info............ The "grow tool" is actually named "fill handle". But I kinda like grow tool also<g Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:25:02 -0700, David Thyer wrote: Brilliant! Sorry for the confusion about filling vs. copying. The grow tool seems to extend series just by dragging. Many thanks, David "RagDyer" wrote: 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! -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "David Thyer" wrote in message ... 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? -- Regards, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "David Thyer" wrote in message ... 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! -- HTH, RD ================================================== === Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ================================================== === "David Thyer" <David wrote in message ... 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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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