How to subtract within a cell Just need to quickly subtract two numbers? You can do that within a single cell in an Excel spreadsheet. Step 1: In an Excel spreadsheet, click on an empty cell. Then ...

Adding & Subtracting Currency Columns in Microsoft Excel. When you add or subtract currency-formatted numbers, Excel 2013 automatically adopts the currency format for the results.

Open Microsoft Excel. Enter a list of values in column A. As an example, you might enter item costs as "$10.95," "$9.99" and "$29.99" in cells A1 through A3. Enter your second list of values in ...