Thanks a lot it was exactly what I wanted, it has saved me hours and hours
regards

Peter Braun
"Niek Otten" wrote in message
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I'm not sure I understand what you require.
But try this:

=IF($B2=$FW$1,$D2-$H2,0)

That is, $ signs only for the column, not for the row

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel



"Bigpond" wrote in message
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| am entering a formula that is counting items in a resource tracking
| register
| I Pasted 2000 entries along a row for example
| =IF($B$2=FW1,$D$2-$H$2,0)
| (FW1 is the item number)
| I now want to copy this row down 2000 rows
| so I have to change each column header to allow for downward copying
example
| =IF(B2=$FW$1,D2-H2,0)
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| I have tried writing a macro that will change example 1 to example 2,
but no
| matter how I try I find that the cell refences chang (D2-e2 and so on).
I
| need of course to be able to have these change (to c3, c4 etc) when I
copy
| down, so I cant use the $ signs here.
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| Manually it is taking forever, can anyone come up with a saving for me .
|
| Thanks
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