I know how to get rid of it now - maybe not permanently, it seems to come
back as a default at times. But does anyone know what it's actaully used for?

Tools|options|General Tab|check/uncheck R1C1 Reference style.

Believe it or not, some people like working this way! (It is a nice way to
compare formulas that should be the same, though.)

And excel picks it up from the first workbook you opened that session. You may
just be unlucky enough to open a workbook that was saved (by someone else???) in
R1C1 reference style.



Peg P wrote:

I know how to get rid of it now - maybe not permanently, it seems to come
back as a default at times. But does anyone know what it's actaully used for?

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Dave Peterson

Well, for some kinds of applications it is just easier to understand.
If you have a financial projection, one row per month, 200 columns wide, and
the first cell of each row, the start value, is the end value of the month
above, you get a formula like
=EndValueMonth R[-1] (Endvalue of the row above)
Which is, I think, easier to understand than
=EndValueMonth 14:14 (different in each row)

I must admit though that, since this format (which used to be my favorite!)
is so rarely used, I tend to give up.

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"Peg P" <Peg wrote in message
...
I know how to get rid of it now - maybe not permanently, it seems to come
back as a default at times. But does anyone know what it's actaully used
for?