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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3661BD">Tech-Talk: EXCEL - Reverse Negative Numbers</span></b><span style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333">Have you ever been working in a spreadsheet with numbers in a column (or a row) that were mixed with both <i>negative</i> and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333">For example, you're working in an Excel spreadsheet with downloaded
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#333333">You don't want negatives, you want "absolute values".</span></b><span style="color:#333333"> You want numbers to be positive – so that you can add them up to identify the total spent on expenses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#333333">There is a simple way to eliminate all the negative (-) signs</span></b><span style="color:#333333"> by converting these numbers into their absolute value ... using the <i>ABS formula</i>. When you use this
built-in formula, the ABS function returns the absolute value of an integer. Negative numbers are converted to positive, and positive numbers are not affected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Convert Negative Numbers to Positives with the ABS Function</span></b><span style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333">To convert negative numbers, do these few steps using <i>Paste Special:</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Somewhere in your Excel spreadsheet, type <b><i>-1</i></b> in a cell. You can delete it later.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<i>Highlight </i>that cell, right-click and choose <i>Copy</i>.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<i>Select/highlight</i> the negative numbers you want to convert to positive. (Hold the Ctrl key each time you click if you are selecting more than one.)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
Move your cursor to one of the highlighted cells, and <i>right</i>-click. Choose <i>
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