How to disable Excel's automatic cell reference change after copy/paste?

Question

I\'ve got a massive Excel 2003 spreadsheet I\'m working on. There are a lot of very large formulas with a lot of cell references. Here\'s a simple example.

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Answer 1

Simple workaround I used just now while in a similar situation:

1. Make a duplicate of the worksheet.
2. Cut + Paste the cells with formulas from the duplicate worksheet (e.g. Copy of Sheet1) into the original worksheet.
3. Remove all occurrences of the the duplicate sheet's name from the newly pasted formulas; e.g. find-and-replace all occurrences of the search term 'Copy of Sheet1'! with an empty string (i.e. blank).
4. Delete duplicate worksheet to clean up.

Note: if your sheet name lacks spaces you won't need to use the single quote/apostrophe (').

Your cell references are now copied without being altered.