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Place "-1" into an empty cell, copy it, then select your range of positive
numbers and "Paste Special"-Multiply


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First, in the future, please ask your question in the body of the post and
only put a short subject in the subject line.............

All I can see of your post is
"How to change positive numbers to negative numbers without re-ente......"

So, to do that, type -1 in an unused cell somewhere, then highlight it and
do COPY....
Then highlight the cells you wish to change from positive to negative and
then right-click and do PasteSpecial Multiply............

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



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In a cell alongside, add

=IF(A10,-A1,A1)

and copy down.

Then select column B, Copy, EditPastespecialValues.

Then delete column A.

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You could also use the formula abs(A1) which is the absolute value of
A1 and will always be positive.

- John



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Which does exactly the opposite of what was asked.

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You could also use the formula abs(A1) which is the absolute value of
A1 and will always be positive.

- John



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Thanks Bob. I guess I'm dyslexic today.

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Thank You Thank You thank you!!! You have saved me soooo much work!

"David Billigmeier" wrote:

Place "-1" into an empty cell, copy it, then select your range of positive
numbers and "Paste Special"-Multiply


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"John Michl" wrote:

Thanks Bob. I guess I'm dyslexic today.

Actually, this answered what I was looking for on this discussion page. There were many posts of positive to negative but this is the first I saw of negative to positive. Thanks!

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