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What is the advantage of A1 or R1C1 Notation ?

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    What is the advantage of A1 or R1C1 Notation ?

    What is the advantage of A1 or R1C1 Notation, R1C1 style is it making the macro speedy or same. i will try to learn if it makes the macro speed. i am interested to know A1 is speedy or R1C1 is speedy for base one macro.

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    Re: What is the advantage of A1 or R1C1 Notation ?

    R1C1 notation makes it easier to place formula by macros, as it saves you constantly having to recalculate the addresses.

    For example, if I want to make the cells in A1:A10 contain a formula pointing one cell to the right of them then with 'normal' notation I could do something like this:

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    whereas with R1C1 notation I can do it in one step:

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    Edited to add: Actually, that was a really bad example, as you can do the same thing with standard notation. I will think of a better answer, really.
    Last edited by Andrew-R; 02-08-2013 at 12:22 PM.

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