Question: This is a very grey area, because while excel is fun to enter, and play around with, often times it's seen as a pseudo-programming language.  

In Excel, one can drag-down formulas to automatically match cell entries, and other minor patterns. Usually, these formulas are dragged to the bottom of the input index, or (often times) all the way down to the bottom of the sheet.

One can start to see how this gets strange very quick, as these drag-downs are useful, but hard to score.

**Note, I'm not talking about answers where [dragging down is part of the input](https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/87614/turtles-all-the-way-down/88761#88761). I'm explicitly referring to answers that already have the formulas in them before any input.**

How should we handle these answers? Should they be ignored? Scored?

Answer: 
Scored answers must be keyboard-only
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Given that the [`Range`](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff838238.aspx) operator exists that can replace the mouse drag-down operation, and the arrow keys can move between cells to (for example) enter multiple snippets of code in separate areas, I can't think of a reason why the mouse needs to be involved.

This also has the benefit of being able to be scored similar to Vim, for example, based on keystrokes.
Just count the bytes
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This is a common question for oddball languages, from Scratch to Minecraft to Lego WeDo. The answer is usually ([from what I've seen](https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9680/14215)) to just count the bytes of the saved file.

It's a simple method, easily understood by anyone. Will this make the score go up? Probably, but if you cared about having a super low score you probably wouldn't be using one of these languages in the first place.

Note: If you can save it one of several Excel formats, choose the one with the lower byte count. Assuming that format has the features necessary to then open it back up and run it properly.