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I suspect you are looking for an absolute reference, try looking it up in
help for an explanation.

Basically

=Sum($A$1:$A$12)

will always refer to that range, wherever you drag/copy it

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Make the references Absolute.

=$A$1 is absolute column and row

$A1 is absolute column and relative row.

A1 is relative row and column

A$1 is relative row and absolute column.

See help on relative and absolute cell references for more on this.


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