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"Eddy J" <Eddy wrote in message
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Running a monthly expenditures worksheet. Would like to subtract what has
been
paid this month ,which is on same sheet with what is normally paid each
month.
example is (L19)-N19). All I get is block contains a constant. What do I
do.
I am running excell 2003.