Trouble Creating an Autofill from a linked cell every 9 lines

[Jo West]

Hello all

I am having difficulty creating an autofill formula.

The first tab of my file is called "By Room" and I would like to link exactly every 9th cell down the sheet (starting with B7 and going forward, B16, B25, B34, B43 etc.) to the second tab, called "Ceilings" into every cell without gaps, starting with A7, A8, A9 etc.

I have done the first 50 as separate links:

The formula in A7 reads: ='By Room'!$B$7
The formula in A8 reads: ='By Room'!$B$16
The formula in A9 reads: ='By Room'!$B$25
etc.

I would like to auto complete this but if I highlight the links already created and drag down the right bottom corner of the cell it just repeats the same links over and over (i.e. it doesn't recognise the pattern that the cell number is increasing by 9 every time).

Any help would be appreciated. The "By Room" tab has 1899 rows so this could take a long time! I think the =INDIRECT formula might be the way forward but I'm not having any luck working this out!

 

[sheetspread]

You can use offset() without indirect:

Excel 2010
	A
7	8257
8	5455
9	443
10	7866
11	8022
12	6219
13	40
14	5946
15	8746
16	1478
Sheet1

Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
A7	=OFFSET('By Room'!$B$7,9*(ROW(A1)-1),0)

 

[sheetspread]

Well actually if you have many tabs and a consistent pattern you can use indirect to change the tab names

 

[Jo West]

Thank you very much sheetspread. That worked absolutely perfectly and that you for writing out the solution so clearly. I am now a happy completed spreadsheet owner!