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    Copying formulas from horizontal to vertical

    Hello,

    I want to quickly copy data between two worksheets within the same work book - one contains the source data and another acting as the summary sheet. In the source data I record cost entries by type and by month with Cost Type as column headers and a row for each month. E.g

    A B C D
    1 Travel Telephone Petrol
    2 Jan £10 £5 £4
    3 Feb £5 £23 £7
    4 Mar £4 £7 £21

    In the summary sheet I want to replicate this but am recording months it horizontally - so it should look like this:

    A B C D
    1 Jan Feb Mar
    2 Travel =Book1!B2 =Book1!B3 =Book1!B4
    3 Telephone =Book1!C2 =Book1!C3 =Book1!C4
    4 Petrol =Book1!D2 =Book1!D3 =Book1!D4

    I can link the dat for one cell easily enough (i.e. "=Book1!B2") but when I try and drag across to the other cells I get the next increment of letter rather that number e.g cell E2 for Travel in April becomes =Book1!C4 not =Book1!B5.

    I often struggle with this and wondered which formula and syntax I need to use please - I looked at transpose() but do not think it is the right one. I need to do this for loads of data help much appreciated!

    Thanks
    Last edited by pmd; 09-06-2011 at 11:37 AM.

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    Re: Copying formulas from horizontal to vertical

    Try something like:

    =INDEX(Book!$B:$D,COLUMNS($A$1:B$1),ROWS($A$1:$A1)) copied down and across
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    Re: Copying formulas from horizontal to vertical

    Ok - thanks. So if my source data for Travel actually starts in cell "Book1!G35" for Jan and goes to "Book1!G46" for December whilst my summary data goes from E32 (Jan) to P32 (Dec) how do I need to adjust the formula please?

    Thanks!

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    Re: Copying formulas from horizontal to vertical

    Possibly?

    =INDEX(Book1!$G$35:$I$46,COLUMNS($A$1:A$1),ROWS($A$1:$A1))

    assuming you have data to bring over in adjacent columns in Book1....

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    Re: Copying formulas from horizontal to vertical

    Perfect - thanks very much!!

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    Re: Copying formulas from horizontal to vertical

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    Re: Copying formulas from horizontal to vertical

    All done - thanks for the reminder!

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