what i meant is instead of entering everytime the formula ie
A1-5,A2-5........can we have a generalised formula which can be applied for
the entire column.
say for example "=(A1:A8)-5" and 5 is subtracted from A1 to A8 .Is there
anything like that

"John Mansfield" wrote:

Naga,

If you have the following in column A - cells A1:A8,

A
10
20
30
40
4
2
1
3

Add this formula to cell B1 and copy it down the range to cell B8:

=A1-5

The formulas in column B when copied down the range look like this:

A B
10 =A1-5
20 =A2-5
30 =A3-5
40 =A4-5
4 =A5-5
2 =A6-5
1 =A7-5
3 =A8-5

The final output looks like this:

A B
10 5
20 15
30 25
40 35
4 -1
2 -3
1 -4
3 -2


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Regards,
John Mansfield
http://www.pdbook.com


"naga s chintala" wrote:

say for example i have (10,20,30,40,4,2,1,3) in column A .Now i would like to
subtract 5 from all the no.s or from the entire column A.
so which formula am i supposed to use

"naga s chintala" wrote:

how can i subtract a single integer value from the entire column
say : i wanna subtract 10 from the entire column of numbers