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Mike Middleton
 
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Default Easy way to make negative data positive?

Sarah -

Select a blank cell somewhere and enter -1.

Edit | Copy.

Select the range of cells containing numbers to be converted.

Edit | Paste Special | Multiply.

- Mike
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"Sarah" wrote in message
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I have a large section of negative data that I want to convert to positive
i.e. - 2 becomes 2 etc. Is there a quick way to do this? Thanks!