George,
What is the "correct" answer?
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Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
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"George Sibley"

wrote in message
Not being an experienced user of Excel, I have a problem thats driving
me crazy. I have built a budget sheet which shows total spending for
the month. The next cell shows the expected spending for the month.
The third cell will show the difference between the other two. The
problem is that the expected spending might be a negative number and
the total spending shows a positive number but I can't get the
difference cell to show the correct amount.
ie. a3 $22.00 a4 -$20.00 a5 $42.00
Formula is =a3-a4. Can someone help.
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George Sibley