Making multiple cells absolute at once
 

I set up a very large workbook. I have linked the formulas of one sheet to
another, however, I need the columns to be rows and the rows to be columns.
I have linked the values, but I need to make all the cells in the sheet
absolute before I can transpose them. There are over 20,000 cells and I
really don't want to hit the F4 key 20,000 times in the sheet. A replace
would not work for this, as the data is too big. I have tried a copy and
then paste special- paste link, but it only makes the reference absolute when
one cell is copied at a time. Any ideas on making many cell references
absolute at once?

have a look in vba help index for convertformula

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Jamie A Miller" (donotspam) wrote in message
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I set up a very large workbook. I have linked the formulas of one sheet
to
another, however, I need the columns to be rows and the rows to be
columns.
I have linked the values, but I need to make all the cells in the sheet
absolute before I can transpose them. There are over 20,000 cells and I
really don't want to hit the F4 key 20,000 times in the sheet. A replace
would not work for this, as the data is too big. I have tried a copy and
then paste special- paste link, but it only makes the reference absolute
when
one cell is copied at a time. Any ideas on making many cell references
absolute at once?

VBA is your only option.

Sub Absolute()
Dim Cell As Range
For Each Cell In Selection
If Cell.HasFormula Then
Cell.Formula = Application.ConvertFormula(Cell.Formula, _
xlA1, xlA1, xlAbsolute)
End If
Next
End Sub


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Thu, 19 May 2005 12:28:05 -0700, "Jamie A Miller"
(donotspam) wrote:

I set up a very large workbook. I have linked the formulas of one sheet to
another, however, I need the columns to be rows and the rows to be columns.
I have linked the values, but I need to make all the cells in the sheet
absolute before I can transpose them. There are over 20,000 cells and I
really don't want to hit the F4 key 20,000 times in the sheet. A replace
would not work for this, as the data is too big. I have tried a copy and
then paste special- paste link, but it only makes the reference absolute when
one cell is copied at a time. Any ideas on making many cell references
absolute at once?