How to disable Excel's automatic cell reference change after copy/paste?

From http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/tip/making_an_exact_copy_of_a_range_of_formulas_take_2:

1. Put Excel in formula view mode. The easiest way to do this is to press Ctrl+` (that character is a "backwards apostrophe," and is usually on the same key that has the ~ (tilde).
2. Select the range to copy.
3. Press Ctrl+C
4. Start Windows Notepad
5. Press Ctrl+V to past the copied data into Notepad
6. In Notepad, press Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+C to copy the text
7. Activate Excel and activate the upper left cell where you want to paste the formulas. And, make sure that the sheet you are copying to is in formula view mode.
8. Press Ctrl+V to paste.
9. Press Ctrl+` to toggle out of formula view mode.

Note: If the paste operation back to Excel doesn't work correctly, chances are that you've used Excel's Text-to-Columns feature recently, and Excel is trying to be helpful by remembering how you last parsed your data. You need to fire up the Convert Text to Columns Wizard. Choose the Delimited option and click Next. Clear all of the Delimiter option checkmarks except Tab.

Or, from http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/tip/making_an_exact_copy_of_a_range_of_formulas/:

If you're a VBA programmer, you can simply execute the following code: 
With Sheets("Sheet1")
 .Range("A11:D20").Formula = .Range("A1:D10").Formula
End With

A very simple solution is to select the range you wish to copy, then Find and Replace (Ctrl + h), changing = to another symbol that is not used in your formula (e.g. #) - thus stopping it from being an active formula.

Then, copy and paste the selected range to it's new location.

Finally, Find and Replace to change # back to = in both the original and new range, thus restoring both ranges to being formulae again.

I came to this site looking for an easy way to copy without changing cell references. But now I thnk my own workaround is simpler than most of these methods. My method relies on the fact that Copy changes references but Move doesn't. Here's a simple example.

Assume you have raw data in columns A and B, and a formula in C (e.g. C=A+B) and you want the same formula in column F but Copying from C to F leads to F=D+E.

1. Copy contents of C to any empty temporary column, say R. The relative references will change to R=P+Q but ignore this even if it's flagged as an error.
2. Go back to C and Move (not Copy) it to F. Formula should be unchanged so F=A+B.
3. Now go to R and copy it back to C. Relative reference will revert to C=A+B
4. Delete the temporary formula in R.
5. Bob's your uncle.

I've done this with a range of cells so I imagine it would work with virtually any level of complexity. You just need an empty area to park the coiped cells. And of course you have to remember where you left them.