What is the function of FormulaR1C1

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I have been looking at FormulaR1C1 as a function  how does this exactly work  I understand what has been said all over the internet which is stands as Row 1 Column 1  but how do people actually make it work  What is the end result of using FormulaR1C1   Also can it be changed to start at a specific point in a sheet  or it always going to be R1C1  So could it be FormulaR2C3

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I find the most valuable feature of  FormulaR1C1 is sheer speed  Versus eg a couple of very large loops filling some data into a sheet  If you can convert what you are doing into a  FormulaR1C1 form  Then a single operation eg myrange FormulaR1C1    my particular formuala  is blindingly fast  can be a thousand times faster    No looping and counting - just fill the range at high speed

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FormulaR1C1 has the same behavior as Formula  only using R1C1 style annotation  instead of A1 annotation  In A1 annotation you would use   Worksheets  Sheet1   Range  A5   Formula     A4 A10    In R1C1 you would use   Worksheets  Sheet1   Range  A5   FormulaR1C1     R4C1 R10C1    It doesn t act upon row 1 column 1  it acts upon the targeted cell or range  Column 1 is the same as column A  so R4C1 is the same as A4  R5C2 is B5  and so forth   The command does not change names  the targeted cell changes  For your R2C3  also known as C2  example    Worksheets  Sheet1   Range  C2   FormulaR1C1     your formula here

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Here s some info from my blog on how I like to use formular1c1 outside of vba    You   ve just finished writing a formula  copied it to the whole spreadsheet  formatted everything and you realize that you forgot to make a reference absolute  every formula needed to reference Cell B2 but now  they all reference different cells   How are you going to do a Find Replace on the cells  considering that one has B5  the other C12  the third D25  etc   etc    The easy way is to update your Reference Style to R1C1  The R1C1 reference works with relative positioning  R marks the Row  C the Column and the numbers that follow R and C are either relative positions  between      or absolute positions  no        Examples    R 2 C refers to the cell two rows below the cell in which the formula   s in RC -1  refers to the cell one column to the left R1C1 refers the cell in the first row and first cell   A 1    What does it matter  Well  When you wrote your first formula back in the beginning of this post  B2 was the cell 4 rows above the cell you wrote it in  i e  R -4 C  When you copy it across and down  while the A1 reference changes  the R1C1 reference doesn   t  Throughout the whole spreadsheet  it   s R -4 C   If you switch to R1C1 Reference Style  you can replace R -4 C by R2C2   B 2  with a simple Find   Replace and be done in one fell swoop

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