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NEGATIVE PLUS POSITIVE HOW TO

What techniques do you use to reverse number signs? Please leave a comment below with any questions or suggestions.Not to be confused with the sine function in trigonometry. This is a common task when exporting data from financial systems, and needing to flip the signs for journal entries (debit and credits). Well, there are two ways to reverse the number signs in Excel. We can also use the Go To Special menu here to first select cells that contain Formulas (non-blanks) before performing the Paste Special.

When we perform the paste special on a cell that contains a formula, the formula is modified to add a *-1 to the end of it. We might want to reverse the signs of the results, but also keep the formula.

The cells in the example below contain a VLOOKUP formula. The Paste Special Multiply operation also works on cells that contain formulas. Reverse the Sign in Cells that Contain Formulas

NEGATIVE PLUS POSITIVE HOW TO

This can be done on the Go To Special menu or with the keyboard shortcut Alt+ Ĭheckout my article and video on how to copy and paste the visible cells only for more details on this technique. We will first want to select the visible cells only on the filtered range. We can use the Paste Special Multiply operation on a filtered range as well. Only Reverse the Sign on the Visible Cells This time only the selected cells will be multiplied by negative 1 to reverse the sign. Perform the Paste Special Multiply operation (Right-click > Paste Special > Multiply > OK.The cells that contain values (non-blanks) will be selected.Click the Constants radio button to select cells that contain values (non-blank).Open the Go To Special Menu (Home tab > Find & Select > Go To Special…).Select the range to paste to, including the blank cells.I explain this in more detail in the video above, but here are the steps: We can do this by using the Go To Special menu to first select non-blank cells (constants/formulas) before performing the paste. Now, we might want to keep those blank cells blank. If we select all the cells in the range including the blank cells, then do the paste special, the blank cells will converted to 0 (zeros). In our original example column B & C contain some blank cells. Only Reverse the Sign in the Non-blank Cells The result is that the signs will be reversed for each cell value.

Click the “Multiply” radio button in the Operation section of the Paste Special menu.Īll of the values in the selected cells will be multiplied by -1.

Open the Paste Special menu: Right-click > Paste Special… (Alt,E,S).

Select the cell(s) that contain the numbers you want to reverse.

Select the cells that contains the -1 and copy it.

Type -1 in a blank cell on the worksheet.

I explain this in more detail in the video above, but here are the steps to reverse the number sign using Paste Special: Here is a quick screen cast animation that shows how to perform the Paste Special operation. This will perform the multiplication on the selected cells that we paste to. We will copy a cell that contains a -1, then use the Multiply operation on the Paste Special menu. We might want to just change the existing values in columns B & C instead. The first solution with the formula works great, but is forces us to create new columns of data that contain formulas. Method #2 – Paste Special Multiply Operation We can then copy/paste the formula to get the results for all the cells in columns B & C.

Or negative numbers will be converted to positive numbers.

Positive numbers will be converted to negative numbers.

This works on cells that contain either positive or negative numbers. We can write a formula to multiply the cell's value by negative 1 (-1). Watch on YouTube & Subscribe to our Channel Method #1 – Multiply by Negative 1 with a Formula