That's the way excel documents the order of precedence. I don't think MS would
ever change this--it would mean that lots of people would have a reason to never
upgrade.

(Yes, it's not the order you learned in school.)

Marty F Humboldt wrote:

Why does -5*3^2 give 45 for a result? Shouldn't this be -45?
I thought this would be fixed in 2007 version- the 2003 version did the same.

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Dave Peterson