Excel's Subtotal command allows you to quickly create subtotals in your sorted data, and then collapse the view to to show only the new subtotal rows. When you try to copy the subtotals by ...

Microsoft Excel updates cell references when you copy an expression. Here are a couple of workarounds for those rare occasions when you don't want to change the cell references.

Click the upper-left cell in the range with the border you want to copy. Drag your cursor to the range's lower-right cell, selecting the entire range. Click "Home" on Excel's menu bar.