To me, your description is a little sketchy, but try this on a copy of your
data.
Sub subtract1FromNumbers()
Dim rng as Range, cell as Range
set rng = Range("B4").currentRegion
for each cell in rng.Specialcells(xlConstants,xlNumbers)
if cell.column =2 and cell.row =4 then
cell = cell - 1
end if
Next
End sub

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"dailem" wrote:

I'm trying to start at a given cell (let's say B4). I want to
highlight all the columns that have data then subtract -1. I was
playing around with Selection.End(xlEnd) - 1, but that doesn't seem to
work. I then want to use that selection to highlight downward all of
the rows that have active information but again subtract -1 from that
range. Basically what I'm doing is eliminating the totals of my rows &
columns to be part of the conditional formatting that I want to run.
Any help w/ this would be appreciated!!!