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    Problem with copying formula with selective cells

    Problem with copying formulae with selected cells

    I have an excel file consisting of selling items and material code and name, in order to arrive at the cost
    using vlookup and iserror I get the cost from say country a and b

    Now I have created the sheet for country and updated the material list for country b
    I can copy down the material price down using the adv filter.
    however when I cant copy (Highlighted in yellow)

    Overheads cost as varies from item to item
    and net cost

    Can any body suggest me an advanced filter or formulaes to copy this down and do in instant manner

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    Re: Problem with copying formula with selective cells

    HI Brandedadnan,
    however when I cant copy (Highlighted in yellow)

    Overheads cost as varies from item to item
    and net cost
    you above statement not clear enough.. please elaborate more? Thanks.


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    Re: Problem with copying formula with selective cells

    thanks dilip for ur reply.
    I am using advanced filter to select only overheads for the all the items


    Over heads are 5% of the cost of the item now that differs from item to item and sometime there are six materials some time 8 some time 3. So no regularity in over heads.
    however material required in each country is same.
    So for example I will copy the cell with data from e9 and i want to paste it in i9 it is working all right.
    however when i copy this formula to all the other cells it selects only the values not the formulaes
    similar issue with the total costs.

    I hope i have been able to explain my issue to u

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    Re: Problem with copying formula with selective cells

    however when i copy this formula to all the other cells it selects only the values not the formulaes
    I believe you are trying to copy this formula to some other cells .. but where ?


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    Re: Problem with copying formula with selective cells

    i have more than 10000 rows. in which overheads rows are about 500.
    So doing this manually will take me two or three days to complete this file.
    When i filter these overheads. i want to copy only overheads data from column e to column i. if i do this manually. it works ok.
    however when i do this using drop down to copy formula. it does not work

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    Re: Problem with copying formula with selective cells

    I understand that you are trying to avoid manual efforts.... but I need to know what manual efforts you are doing.. can you outline step by step on complete cycle ? Thanks.


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    Re: Problem with copying formula with selective cells

    I am sorry Dilip I am so far unable to explain u what i needed. I thank u for ur patience. let me have another go at it.

    if there is no formulas. I will have to go filter the data only for overheads and then i will copy one cell say e9 and paste it on i9 then the second cell will be e21 copy and paste it on i21 and so on and so forth. for the all 1000 items.

    I tried copy formula but it return absoulete values not the formula that i am looking for.

    I hope that makes picture clearer to u

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    Re: Problem with copying formula with selective cells

    I will have to go filter the data only for overheads
    Let me start from here only...Out of the data, which rows are overhead rows ?

    Alternatively, I guess.. I am getting you.. so try below one:-
    Just filter what ever rows you want, go to column I and give "=reference to column E".
    for example.. after filtering if you need to copy e9 to i9 (there could be more rows /cells like this).. so select i9, press =, give reference to e9, copy formula from i9 and go to next row (I believe that would be row 21 after filter) and paste in I21.

    You can press alt + ; to select just the visible cells on column I and paste formula at once.
    when you are done with pasting, remove filters, and copy -paste special values over column I, so that values are freezed (values will not change when anything changes in column E- I hope you need this ELSE ignore)


    Hope this is what you need ELSE explain step by step (in details - like I tired above)


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    Re: Problem with copying formula with selective cells

    Oho. It worked like magic...

    Thanks buddy esp. for patience...

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    Re: Problem with copying formula with selective cells

    you are welcome buddy

    Cheers

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