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Microsoft Excel 2003 Functions and Formulas - Return a Number Without the Negative Sign

When performing Microsoft Excel calculations there may be times where you need to return a number without its negative prefix (the absolute value of a number). For this you can use the =ABS function.

For example:

=ABS(25)
25

=ABS(-25)
25

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