really easy excel questions

QueHuong

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Nov 21, 2001
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pulling an all nighter here so I'm trying to get this assignment done as soon as possible.

I have 2 columns of numbers, in A and B. I want to subtract B from A and put the difference in column C. How do I do that? I know it's really simple, but I rarely use excel and I don't know the syntax.

And there will probably be more questions later on.
 

Yossarian

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in the 1st cell in C, type =

then click on the 1st cell in A, type -
click on the 1st cell in B, hit enter
copy that 1st C cell down
 
Dec 4, 2002
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in column C1 put A1-B1, C2 put A2-B2, etc. , then hit the checkmark box at the top and then hit the equals box exactly to the right of it.