How to format whole column negative value, Excel

I want to make a whole column negative currency value so that the sum of
A+B=Difference. This is to remove the entries in B from the customer’s
responsibility.
Or should one just use the formula, =A-B, and format the appearance of the
remainder column?
Am I correct: that Excel does not have a function for DIFFerence or
SUBTraction?

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I want to make a whole column negative currency value so that the sum of
A+B=Difference. This is to remove the entries in B from the customer's
responsibility.
Or should one just use the formula, =A-B, and format the appearance of the
remainder column?
Am I correct: that Excel does not have a function for DIFFerence or
SUBTraction?

Do you mean that you just want the difference between A and B and return that
as a positive number irrespective of whether A or B is the larger value? If
so then you can use the following:-

=ABS(A2-B2)

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OssieMac


"PES" wrote:

I want to make a whole column negative currency value so that the sum of
A+B=Difference. This is to remove the entries in B from the customer’s
responsibility.
Or should one just use the formula, =A-B, and format the appearance of the
remainder column?
Am I correct: that Excel does not have a function for DIFFerence or
SUBTraction?

Apply this formula in Column C1 '=-B1' and copy that to the entire column C

Copy entire Column B. Right Click PasteSpecial--Values to column D.
Delete column B and column C

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Jacob Skaria


"PES" wrote:

I want to make a whole column negative currency value so that the sum of
A+B=Difference. This is to remove the entries in B from the customer’s
responsibility.
Or should one just use the formula, =A-B, and format the appearance of the
remainder column?
Am I correct: that Excel does not have a function for DIFFerence or
SUBTraction?

Hi,

1. there is no SUBTRACT or DIFFERENCE function in Excel
2. I would use =A1-B1 and coping it down
3. However, you can convert all the entries in column B to negatives as
follows. In a blank cell enter -1. Select that cell and copy it. Then
select the numbers in column B and choose Edit, Paste Special, Multiply.

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Shane Devenshire


"PES" wrote:

I want to make a whole column negative currency value so that the sum of
A+B=Difference. This is to remove the entries in B from the customer’s
responsibility.
Or should one just use the formula, =A-B, and format the appearance of the
remainder column?
Am I correct: that Excel does not have a function for DIFFerence or
SUBTraction?