{"id":5049,"date":"2020-03-11T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2024-03-28T14:55:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:55:14","slug":"what-does-mean-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/examples\/what-does-mean-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does &#8220;&#8211;&#8221; Mean in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-c577cb36-a84d-4981-9ded-3140a8d51e56\" href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/What-does-mean-in-Excel.xlsx\">What-does-mean-in-Excel<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/What-does-mean-in-Excel.xlsx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-c577cb36-a84d-4981-9ded-3140a8d51e56\">Download File<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;&#8211;&#8221; is a double unary operator. It&#8217;s used to\nchange the sign of the value twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you use them for numbers, it doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense, because you will end with the same number that you had before the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>5 = -(-5)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This operator is a shorthand method to convert <strong>TRUE<\/strong> and <strong>FALSE<\/strong> to <strong>1<\/strong> and <strong>0<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>-TRUE = -1\n--TRUE = --1 = 1\n-FALSE = 0\n--FALSE = 0<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use only one minus for <strong>FALSE<\/strong> because zero is neither a positive or a negative number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"282\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/double-unary-operator.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5050\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;&#8211;&#8221; is a double unary operator. 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