"fill down" from dell containing letter X results in succeeding letters

If I use the letter X as a placeholder in a cell and want to fill cells in successive rows with the same letter, I get y in the next cell, z in the next, etc. How can I tell Numbers to duplicate X in the succeeding rows?

It's explained in the Help, chapter Autofilling Table Cells
select cell A1 and cell A2, both containing X
then drag the circular handle to the bottom.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 17 juin 2008 20:57:00)

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Hi all. I am trying to write a script to take the values from column A and subtract the value of A$1 from the rest of column A. To do this manually I set D1 = A1-A$1 and then fill down in column D to the last used row in column A. Then copy-special paste values from column D to column A. Below is what I have written so far, but the "select (ranges "D1" thru active cell)" selects cells D1 and the active cell ($D$5) not from cell D1 down to the active cell.
Any ideas for a newbie?
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set formula of cell "D1" to "=A1-A$1"
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fill down (ranges "D1" thru active cell)
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I figured out a way to do what I was after, but I would think there is a more direct way of doing it.
If anyone has a way to slim down or clean-up this script, please let me know.
Here is the script I have now.
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
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select (get end range "A:A" direction toward the bottom)
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Hi,
Is there anyway I can get the fill down command to insert the same value in each cell, rather than filling in an increasing series. It works fine for plain numbers (i.e. if I fill down from a cell containing "1", it gives a column with every cell containing "1").
However, for dates and mixtures of text and numbers it always increments the values - example below:
Doing fill down from cells containing:
1 18 Mar 2009 abc100
Gives:
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1 19 Mar 2009 abc101
1 20 Mar 2009 abc102
1 21 Mar 2009 abc103
1 22 Mar 2009 abc104
1 23 Mar 2009 abc105
etc...
How can I keep the dates and "abc100" the same in the filled cells?
Thanks for any help!
Jo

I have no idea how the designers of Numbers determined when to fill down identical values versus incrementing the values. For instance, "abc100" increments in a fill down while "100" and "abc" do not. I, personally, see nothing special about "abc100" that indicates a pattern.
And you are correct that Fill Down is different than dragging the circle. Fill down takes whatever is in the top cell and fills down (either incrementing or not, depending on whatever the rule is the designers chose) while overwriting whatever was in the lower cells. Dragging the circle of a box that covers 2 or more cells fills down from the bottom of the box and it looks for patterns, not just simple increments.
No problem on the search. It isn't always easy to find what you are looking for. I just happened to remember that thread.

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"I wanted to award the top mark of 20 points and slowest time or more of 1 point and just spread the gap evenly across points 2-19."
How does a participant get a time that is "more" than the "slowest time"? (see NOTE appended)
Using the described method of assigning points, here's an example.
For two races, each with three competitors, the points awarded could be (rounded or truncated from) the calculated values below:
Note that the 'best' times and the 'second best' times in both races are the same. Only the time of the slowest runner (and the consequent score of the 'second best') are different.
If the (huge) difference in score for an identical performance when compared with the winning time is acceptable, here's a solution that will calculate those results directly from the list of times (in seconds, expressed as a decimal number).
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Columns C, D and E are independent calculations, each using the in column B. C shows the raw point value; D shows the same calculation with the result truncated to show only the integer part, E shows the same calculation with the result rounded to the nearer integer value. See the scores for Runners 4, 7, 9 (and others) for differences when reducing the point values to whole number values.
For test and demonstration purposes, I entered the fastest and slowest times in the first two cells of column B, and generated the rest using the RANDBETWEEN function. The entered scores can be in any order. Runners who did not participate, or did not finish should have their column B cell left empty.
Formulas: The three formulas are identical except for truncating or rounding parts (shown in bold). Pick the one that best suits your needs. They're placed in the top row containing race times, and filled down from there.
C2: =IF(LEN(B)>0,1+19*(MAX(B)-B)/(MAX(B)-MIN(B)),"")
D2: =IF(LEN(B)>0,INT(1+19*(MAX(B)-B)/(MAX(B)-MIN(B))),"")
E2: =IF(LEN(B)>0,ROUND(1+19*(MAX(B)-B)/(MAX(B)-MIN(B)),0),"")
Regards,
Barry
NOTE: Your mention of 'the slowest time or more' might offer a way around the score variation noted above. The organization governing F1 racing introduced a new rule recently restricting qualifying times to those less than seven per cent slower than the fastest time in the qualifying rounds. A similar rule, defining a floor value at and below which finishers will be awarded a single point would also make points above that floor dependent only on the runner's performance relative to the race winner.
Here's an example, using the same three-runner races shown above, but with the 'floor' set at 50% more than the winning time.
Formula (in row 2, then filled down)
B2: =IF(LEN(A)>0,IF(A>1.5*MIN(A),1,1+(19)*(1.5*MIN(A)-A)/(1.5*MIN(A)-MIN(A))),"")
Copied to column D, the A references are replaced with D.
Conversion to integer values would use the same modifications as shown above.
The results seem a fairer reflection of the second and third place times wrt the winning times in the two races.
B.

Fill down - how?

I can find no way in Numbers of using fill down from the keyboard (ctrl+D in Excel). I know you can select a cell edge and drag down but there appears to be no keyboard shortcut (which is much faster and accurate).

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I agree, I also miss ⌘ D from AppleWorks. Still another thing to leave feedback to the Numbers team about.

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