Copying cells without autofilling

I'm using Numbers version 9. I have a row of cells in a summary sheet that reference back to cells in a particular sheet. Now I want to create other rows that reference the same cells in other sheets. When I try to copy these cells to create the other rows, Numbers is autofilling (auto-incrementing the references) incorrectly. Is there a way to copy a series of cells without autofill?
Do I have to select each cell and change it's reference to absolute?
Also, is there a way to select a bunch of cells and just change the sheet that's referenced by all the cells formulas?
Thanks,
Dave

Hi Gavin,
Here's the original formula from the post above:
B2: =OFFSET(INDIRECT($A2&"::$A$1",),3,COLUMN()-1,,)
The syntax for OFFSET is:
OFFSET(base, row offset, column offset,rows,columns)
The last two arguments are otional. If omitted, as they are in this formula, both default to 1, and the content of a single cell is returned.
'base' is the address of the cell from which OFFSET starts. Here, it is specified using the INDIRECT function, which constructs the address as a text string. The content of cell A2 (on the table containing the formula) is the name of the table (ABIE) from which data is to be returned to row 2 of the summary table. The name from A2 is concatenated with the text "::$A$1" to create the address of the base—ABIE::$A$1.
All data to be returned from ABIE is in row 4 of that table, three rows below $A$1, so the row offset is 3.
In your case, the data is in row 25 of the table, twenty four rows below $A$1. Your row offset value is 24.
The first piece of data to be returned is in column B of ABIE, one column to the right of the base, $A$1.
the second piece is in column C, the third in column D.
The COLUMN() function, with no argument supplied, returns the 'column number' of the cell containing the formula. In B2, it will return 2, in C2, 3, and in D2, 4. Each of these values is one more than the column offset needed to get to the column containing the data, so we can specify the column offset using COLUMN()-1, and the returned value will automatically adjust as the formula is filled right.
That's true for the three columns of data in the example, and for the six columns of data in your case, provided the columns are contiguous.
So for your case, assuming you are returning the data from row 25 of the source table(s), and that you are returning it to row 2 of your summary tabe. the formula requires only one reision:
B2: =OFFSET(INDIRECT($A2&"::$A$1",),24,COLUMN()-1,,)
Regards,
Barry

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