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  • Inconsistent formula or MS trying to be too clever?

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 28 06:22:29 2020
    Thank you, thank you, thank you. This feature of Excel has bugged me for years and I only finally thought to search for a way to turn it off.

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  • From Roger Govier@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Mar 29 02:11:37 2020
    On Saturday, 28 March 2020 13:22:33 UTC, [email protected] wrote:
    Thank you, thank you, thank you. This feature of Excel has bugged me for years and I only finally thought to search for a way to turn it off.

    Hi
    Just as an aside, you could write that formula more efficiently as =MAX(D31+G32-B42,0)

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