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Default Pasting Formula Based on 2 Existing Formulas

I often use the Excel (2003) feature where you have, for example, the number
2 in cell A1 and the number 4 in Cell A2 and you want A3 to be 6, A4 to be 8,
etc. You just select A1:A2, click in the lower right corner of A2, and drag
down as far as you want. However I've tried to do a similar thing where very
simple formulas are involved and I get unexpected results. For example, if
A1 had the formula "=B1" and A2 had the formula "=B3" I would expect that
using this same method I'd get "=B5" in A3 and "=B7" in A4. But instead I
get "=B3" and "=B5" (followed by ="B5" again then "=B7", "=B7", "=B9", "=B9",
and so on.

Am I doing something wrong or is this feature just not supported where
formulas are concerned?

Thanks,
Will
 
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