Fill a formula down without dragging in Excel for Mac 2011

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Double click the box on the bottom right of the cell with the formula, as shown in your screenshot. It will fill the formula until it finds a blank row.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • user715002
    user715002 almost 2 years

    Does anybody know the keyboard shortcuts or menu commands to fill a formula down without dragging? I'm using Excel for Mac 2011 on a MacBook.

    I've got a spreadsheet like this pattern but for like 5000 rows:

    A, B, C, D
    5, 1, 3   =SUM(A1:C1)
    3, 2, 4
    ...
    

    I know how to hover over D1 and get the handle and drag down, but there must be an easier way.

    There are a billion tips online but I'm not finding any that work.

    FWIW, Macbook has some exceptions to shortcut key rules, so that's probably why, I guess.

    But anyhow, anyone know how to do this?

    PS: I would have thought "fill series" would be a choice but no. Here's a picture.

    A picture

  • SineadCoyle
    SineadCoyle over 2 years
    If anyone else is struggling with this filling the whole way down, the column has to be right next to a column with data so it knows how far down to fill. I was trying to fill a formula in a column with a few rows of empty cells between it and the filled data, and it wasn't working.