Microsoft Excel updates cell references when you copy an expression. Here are a couple of workarounds for those rare occasions when you don't want to change the cell references.

To copy the same formula to other cells in Excel is easy, and you can use keyboard shortcuts, AutoFill or Copy and Paste command.

To copy only visible cells in Excel or Google Sheets, use the 'Visible cells only' feature, or apply filters to hide data. We show you how!

Excel's Subtotal command allows you to quickly create subtotals in your sorted data, and then collapse the view to to show only the new subtotal rows. When you try to copy the subtotals by ...

Click the upper-left cell in the range with the border you want to copy. Drag your cursor to the range's lower-right cell, selecting the entire range. Click "Home" on Excel's menu bar.

How to delete rows with Find in Excel It might have occurred to you at this point, that this feature might provide a quick way to delete cell values and even records.