Tools>Options>General tab, Uncheck R1C1 Reference style
I don't know what you mean: "wont let me copy" What happens?

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Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel
| I'm working in an excel spreadsheet that has a row of "1" and a column of "1"
| resulting a cell being R1C1. How do I change that be a row of "1" column of
| "A"? And why wont it let me copy my formulas into other fields?