Tom Ogilvy wrote:

Precedence of operations is stated in the help. As far as I know,
there is no universally accepted order of precedence that covers all
combinations and permutations.

Again, sounds like your beef is with your consultant if you were
paying for his/her expertise in Excel.

Tom,

You are 100% right!
It sounds like he doesn't want to tell his client he wasted 1 week and
2000$ on something that simply can be found in the help. So the easy
way out is to blame MS for everything.

Welll... this is in my help (in Dutch)

Operator Beschrijving
– Negatief maken (zoals in –1)
% Procent
^ Machtsverheffen
* en / Vermenigvuldigen en delen
+ en – Optellen en aftrekken
& Twee tekenreeksen aan elkaar koppelen
= < <= = < Vergelijken

As you can see, a negative sign has precendence over power.
Unfortunately for Fred, a negative sign and a subtraction are
typographically identical. There is only one good solution: using
brackets.

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