Cell References
When you
created the sales spreadsheet, you selected a range of cells to
AutoFill.
If we put 100 for the quantity in the first cell and 105 in the next,
Excel fills down the series and adds 5 more
to each cell. If you wanted a different forecast you could enter new quantities in the
first and second cells and use the AutoFill again.
This could get old very fast. It is also a rather inflexible method of
changing the data. There is a better method: reference cells.Reference
cells set up one place to enter the data. All of the other equations and
spreadsheets that depend on that data look it up in the reference cells.