Yes!!!! Jerry, using the ABS worked! It never occurred to me after
years of working with Excel that when all cells were formatted as 2
decimal numbers there could still be a rounding error. Live and learn.

Thank you all ever so much.

Joan


"Bernard Liengme" wrote in message
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Try =IF(ABS(D75-D76)<0.001,"Balanced","Error")
Like Jerry, I thnik you have an IEEE rounding issue here
best wishes

"Notbefore10" wrote in message
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I get the opposite effect when I apply this formula...

=IF(D75=D76,"Balanced","Error")

The answer is "Error", even though the amount is exactly the same in
D75 and D76.

If I reverse it I still get the wrong answer...

=IF(D75<D76,"Error","Balanced"

The answer is "Balanced"

I must be missing some very basic syntax knowledge. The cells D75 and
E76 are definitely the same number format.

Thanks for your help.