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Default Negative Numbers

Gord wrote on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:17:59 -0700:

Copy that cell.


Select the range of negative numbers and EditPaste
SpecialMultiplyOKEsc.


No need for helper column.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:14:01 -0700, PL
wrote:


How do I change all the numbers in a row into positive ones
without doing so individually?


I'll admit that the question is a bit ambiguous but the useful variant
ot Paste Special will work only if *all* the numbers in the row are
negative.

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