In one colum I have different years eg. 2009, 1979, etc.. In the next column
I have 2010. What I'm trying to do is subtract from each colum to show how
many years a person has been in employment eg. 2009 joined company 2010 left
company. I know I can do =2010-2009, but how do I drop the formula. I have
tried putting in the colum eg. =a-b, but this doesn't work. If I do it the
other way I have to do it individually.

Can anyone help?

Hi,
not sure if I understood, in column A you have the year the person started
and in column D the year he left the company so in column E enter

=D1-A1

copy formula down

"KTC53" wrote:

In one colum I have different years eg. 2009, 1979, etc.. In the next column
I have 2010. What I'm trying to do is subtract from each colum to show how
many years a person has been in employment eg. 2009 joined company 2010 left
company. I know I can do =2010-2009, but how do I drop the formula. I have
tried putting in the colum eg. =a-b, but this doesn't work. If I do it the
other way I have to do it individually.

Can anyone help?

=A1-B1 and copy down.



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In one colum I have different years eg. 2009, 1979, etc.. In the next
column
I have 2010. What I'm trying to do is subtract from each colum to show
how
many years a person has been in employment eg. 2009 joined company 2010
left
company. I know I can do =2010-2009, but how do I drop the formula. I
have
tried putting in the colum eg. =a-b, but this doesn't work. If I do it
the
other way I have to do it individually.

Can anyone help?

in C1 cell enter manually =A1-B1, then either copy the formulae manually till the end or use cltr + D to copy down the formulae.

all the best