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

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From http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/tip/making_an_exact_copy_of_a_range_of_formulas_take_2:

  1. Put Excel in formula view mode. The easiest way to do this is to press Ctrl+` (that character is a “backwards apostrophe,” and is usually on the same key that has the ~ (tilde).
  2. Select the range to copy.
  3. Press Ctrl+C
  4. Start Windows Notepad
  5. Press Ctrl+V to past the copied data into Notepad
  6. In Notepad, press Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+C to copy the text
  7. Activate Excel and activate the upper left cell where you want to paste the formulas. And, make sure that the sheet you are copying to is in formula view mode.
  8. Press Ctrl+V to paste.
  9. Press Ctrl+` to toggle out of formula view mode.

Note: If the paste operation back to Excel doesn’t work correctly, chances are that you’ve used Excel’s Text-to-Columns feature recently, and Excel is trying to be helpful by remembering how you last parsed your data. You need to fire up the Convert Text to Columns Wizard. Choose the Delimited option and click Next. Clear all of the Delimiter option checkmarks except Tab.

Or, from http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/tip/making_an_exact_copy_of_a_range_of_formulas/:

If you're a VBA programmer, you can simply execute the following code: 
With Sheets("Sheet1")
 .Range("A11:D20").Formula = .Range("A1:D10").Formula
End With

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