{"id":7090,"date":"2017-10-03T19:20:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/?p=7090"},"modified":"2023-11-30T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:17:10","slug":"subtraction-formula-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/subtraction-formula-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtraction Formula in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does it do?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Subtracts two numbers<\/p>\n

Formula breakdown:<\/strong><\/p>\n

=number1<\/span>\u00a0–\u00a0number2<\/span><\/p>\n

What it means:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

=the number being deducted from –\u00a0<\/span>the number being deducted<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Excel subtracting numbers together is really easy, the Subtraction Formula<\/strong> is actually through the use of the subtraction operator: –<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I will show you in the steps below how you could use this.<\/p>\n

This is the table of values that we want to perform subtraction on:<\/p>\n

\"Subtraction<\/a><\/p>\n

I explain how you can do this below:<\/p>\n

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