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Lesson 3 of 5
Copying formulas and locking references
What you will be able to do
Copy a formula down a column, predict what happens to its references, and use $ to hold one of them still.
You wrote the line total once. Now it needs to be on all twelve rows, and the branch manager wants a tax-inclusive column that uses one rate stored in one place. This is where most people's first spreadsheet quietly breaks.
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G2 holds =E2*F2. Copy it down to G13 so every order has a line total.
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