Absolute value with IF statement

beancounter

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I have a forumula as below

=IF((M20-21>0+0)*(M20-21<41+0),M20-21,(M20-21)-40)

It seems to work but if the # in M20 is less than 61 I get a negative number. I don't want the forumula to return negative numbers. How do I change the formula to make negative #'s be zero?????

Thanks,
John :unsure:
 

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Code:
=IF(M20<61, 0, IF((M20-21>0+0)*(M20-21<41+0),M20-21,(M20-21)-40))
 
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Dave3009,

I'm trying to determine if a number M20 - 21 units is greater than 0 but less than 40.

If so I need M20 - 21, but if M20 - 21 is greater than 40, I need (M20 - 21) -40 and have that # either be positve or zero.

Hope that makes sense.

John
 
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