Try it like this:

=300-(F23*24)

Format the cell as GENERAL or NUMBER

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"xololady" wrote in message
...
I appreciate your previous help with this time sheet. Now I have total
hours
worked. I want to create a formula to show hours needed to work out of
300.
So I tried =300-F23 (which is the cell where my total hours worked is) I
get
a very large number. F23 is formatted as [h]:mm;@ and so is my total cell
(F27). I tried formatting F27 as a number and that was wrong too. Thank
you
for your help.