How to change positive numbers to negative in Excel?
How can you quickly change all positive numbers or values to negative in Excel? The following methods can guide you to quickly change all positive numbers to negative in Excel.
Change positive numbers to negative with Paste Special function
Change positive numbers to negative with VBA code
Change positive numbers to negative or vice versa with Kutools for Excel
Change or convert positive numbers to negatives and vice versa: With Kutools for Excel’s Change Sign of Values utility, you can change the positive numbers to negative or vice versa, reverse the sign of numbers, fix trailing negative signs, and so on.
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Change positive numbers to negative with Paste Special function
You can change positive numbers to negative with Paste Special function in Excel. Please do as follows.
1. Tap number -1 in a blank cell and copy it.
2. Highlight the range that you want to change, then right-click and choose Paste Special from the context menu to open the Paste Special dialog box. See screenshot:
3. Then select All option from the Paste, and Multiply from the Operation.
4. And then click OK, all of the positive numbers have been changed to negative numbers.
5. At last, you can delete the number -1 as you need.
Change positive numbers to negative with VBA code
Using VBA code, you can also change positive numbers to negative, but you must know how to use a VBA. Please do as the following steps:
1. Select the range that you want to change.
2. Click Developer >Visual Basic, a new Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window will be displayed, click Insert > Moduleand then copy and paste the following codes in the module:
Sub ChangeToNegative()
'Updateby20131113
Dim rng As Range
Dim WorkRng As Range
On Error Resume Next
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set WorkRng = Application.Selection
Set WorkRng = Application.InputBox("Range", xTitleId, WorkRng.Address, Type:=8)
Set WorkRng = WorkRng.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants, xlNumbers)
For Each rng In WorkRng
xValue = rng.Value
If xValue > 0 Then
rng.Value = xValue * -1
End If
Next
End Sub3. Click 
button to run the code, a dialog is popped out for you to select a range that you want to convert the posItive values to negative. See screenshot:
4. Click Ok, then the positive values in the selected range is converted to negative at once.
Change positive numbers to negative or vice versa with Kutools for Excel
You can also use Kutools for Excel’s Change Sign of Values tool to quickly change all positive numbers to negative.
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If you have installed Kutools for Excel, you can change positive numbers to negative as follows:
1. Select the range you want to change.
2. Click Kutools > Content > Change Sign of Values, see screenshot:
3. And in the Change Sign of Values dialog box, select Change all positive values to negative option.
4. Then click OK or Apply. And all of the positive numbers have been converted to negative numbers.
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Tips: To change or convert all the negative numbers to positive, please choose Change all negative values to positive in the dialog box as following screenshot shown:
Kutools for Excel’s Change Sign of Values can also fix trailing negative signs, change all negative values to positive and so on. For more detailed information about Change Sign of Values, please visit Change Sign of Values feature description.
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Demo: Change positive numbers to negative or vice versa with Kutools for Excel
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Comments
I am trying to make a customer statement in excel.
I want to have a coloumn for date, description, amount ,currency, exchange rate, Debit , credit and balance.
I want it that when i put a negative figure on the amount, it multiplies with the exchange rate and posts on the debit automatically. and vice versa for the credit !
How can i do that in excel please.
Dominic
Please try to do as follows:
In Debit, please use =if(C2>0,"",C2*E3)
In Credit, please use =if(C2
Thank You!
Raghu
=A2*-1
Works a treat, none of this faffing about with Paste Special and suchlike