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.

How to Copy a Date Pattern in Excel. When you apply cell formatting in Microsoft Excel, you quickly standardize how dates and other kinds of data appear in individual cells, workbooks and ...

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.

This tutorial shows the steps to use Automatic Data Type in Microsoft Excel. It allows you to insert details of cities, food items, music, animals, persons, etc, automatically.

Learn how to how to increment numbers when value changes in another column. You can automatically fill increment cells in Excel such that the increment value across each cell remains constant.