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    Question Copying colums of formula and adding blank rows

    Hi,
    I have been told by some people that this cannot be achieved in excel so I thought this wold be the best place to disprove them.

    I have data in column A from 1-1000

    I want to reference this data to another worksheet within the same workbook, still in a column but with spaces in between each entry so we have
    1
    [space]
    [space]
    2
    [space]
    [space]
    3
    etc

    If i was doing this for half a dozen cells then it would not be an issue as I would link them manually but with so many entries I wanted to "fill down" usin an automatic method but I cannot get it to work.

    If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful. I can also go back to the people who said it couldn't be done and show them

    Many thanks
    TGB
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    Re: They say it can't be done

    Assuming you want the data to start in C1 in another sheet then put this formula in C1

    =INDEX(Sheet1!A:A,ROWS(C$1:C1)/3+1)

    leave C2 and C3 blank

    Now select C1:C3 and fill down as far as required
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    Re: They say it can't be done

    I don't think you can do that with "fill", and I wouldn't WANT to do it with formulas. But if you reference the first cell and then copy the formula down, then all you need to do is add the blank lines between each line. That would be a rather simple macro that you could record (using relative references). Then let 'er ***, and break out of it after the 1000th reference.

    Probably not what you had in mind, but it would certainly be easier than doing it manually ...

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    Re: They say it can't be done

    Of course, I should have waited a few minutes and someone would have proved me wrong ...

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    Re: They say it can't be done

    this is a breach of the forum rules dll you should know better lol
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    Re: They say it can't be done

    mmm....you're right Martin, going a little senile ....please change thread title as advised tallgingerbloke

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    Re: Copying colums of formula and adding blank rows

    OK title changed, sorry guys

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    Re: Copying colums of formula and adding blank rows

    See my previous post for one possible method.....

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    Re: Copying colums of formula and adding blank rows

    works great thanks ddl, you do make people look good !

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