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Given that I have the following data in sheet1:

| id                                   | red |
|--------------------------------------|-----|
| e6282843-efc0-44f6-8989-028153adc317 | yes |
| 014c7590-5c3f-4260-b251-5098dd825688 |     |
| 6a037de4-0dc6-4e67-966b-7d6187b9d93b | yes |

I know that by entering =sheet1!A2 in sheet2 column I can grab the data and then dragging the formula will expand it as far as I want. But is there a better to sync two columns without specifying the range?

Basically, I want a column to be cloned and updated in another sheet without expanding the formula. Every time something is added to first column it should reflect on the second column.

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This sounds like a job for ARRAYFORMULA. Enter this in your Sheet 2 cell, where you want the values copied to:

=ARRAYFORMULA('Sheet 1'!A2:B)

When you enter new values in Sheet 1, the new values will automatically be present in Sheet 2. Only the A2:B range is included.

Feel free to copy this spreadsheet that I set up to test, and check the documentation for ARRAYFORMULA.

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  • Awesome. Saw the arrayformula earlier but couldn't figure out how to use it. Thanks.
    – Sam R.
    Dec 18, 2015 at 22:47
  • Yeah, arrayformula is in no way obvious. Glad you could use it!
    – Vidar S. Ramdal
    Dec 18, 2015 at 22:48

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