How to copy formula without changing its cell references in Excel?
Normally Excel adjusts the cell references if you copy your formulas to another location in your worksheet. You would have to fix all cell references with a dollar sign ($) or press F4 key to toggle the relative to absolute references to prevent adjusting the cell references in formula automatically. If you have a range of formulas need to be copied, these methods will be very tedious and time-consuming. If you want to copy the formulas without changing cell references quickly and easily, try the following methods:
Using Replace function to copy formula without changing its cell references
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Using Replace function to copy formula without changing its cell references
In Excel, you can copy formula without changing its cell references with Replace function as following steps:
1. Highlight the range that you want to copy;
2. Click Home > Find & Select > Replace…, or press shortcuts CTRL+H, and a Find & Select dialog box will display.
3. Click Replace button, in the Find what box input “=”, and in the Replace with box input “#” or any other signs that different with your formulas. Basically, this will stop the references from being references. For example, “=A1*B1” becomes “#A1*B1”, and you can move it around without excel automatically changing its cell references in current worksheet.
4. Then click Replace All, it will replace all “=” with “#” in the range. And close the dialog box. The formulas in the range will be changed as following screenshots.
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5. Copy and paste the formulas to the location that you want of the current worksheet.
6. Select the both changed ranges, and then reverse the step 4. Click Home> Find & Select >Replace… or press shortcuts CTRL+H, but this time enter “#” in the Find what box, and “=” in the Replace with box, and click Replace All. Then the formulas have been copied and pasted into another location without changing the cell references. See screenshot:
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After installing Kutools for Excel, click Kutools > Exact copy.
1. In the Exact Formula Copy dialog box, click 
button to select the range that you want to copy, and click OK.
Tips: Copy formatting option will keep all cells formatting after pasting the range, if the option has been checked.
2. Then select a single cell to start pasting the range.
3. Click OK to finish it. And the formulas have been pasted into the specified cells without changing the cell references.
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