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Thank you!

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:15:01 -0700, bpa wrote:

I haven't used Excel in a while. I am trying to figure out how to create a
formula to display the result of subtracting different cells in a row. For
example:
n=a1-b1 with result showing in n; then when I update the next time I want
n=b1-c1
and so on for the remainder of the cells in row 1. Is there a way to do
this???

Thanks in advance!



If I understand you correctly, you will be entering numbers sequentially in A1,
B1, C1 etc.

You want the subtraction of the last number entered from the next-to-last
number entered to appear in N1.

I assume the last value would be entered in M1.

That being the case, try this formula:

=OFFSET(N1,0,COUNT(A1:M1)-COLUMN(N1)-1)-
OFFSET(N1,0,COUNT(A1:M1)-COLUMN(N1))

--ron