To who it many concern

Wondering about calulating time differences I looked for help on the help 
option offered on the Open Office Org. Spreadsheet programme. 

On the help menu it states

>If you want to calculate time differences, for example, the time between 23:30 
>and 01:10 in the same night, use the following formula:
=(B2<A2)+B2-A2
The later time is B2 and the earlier time is A2. The result of the example is 
01:40 or 1 hour and 40 minutes.
In the formula, an entire 24-hour day has a value of 1 and one hour has a value 
of 1/24. The logical value in parentheses is 0 or 1, corresponding to 0 or 24 
hours. The result returned by the formula is automatically issued in time 
format due to the sequence of the operands.<

The formula has worked for most cases when the time differences are within one 
day but the thing is when I calulate the time eg. Monday 1700 hrs to Tuesday 
0100 hrs it comes back with a negative number. The answer is correct but I need 
it to be postive in order for my calculation to work.

Is there a way to format the cells to only have postive numbers from the 
calulation? I would need these particular numbers to automatically appear to be 
a positive  instead of a negative number.

Another thing.... I merged 3 cells together. I tried using your speical fill 
eg. when typing in days I simply highlight across the cells concerned to 
automatically fill them in with the other days. A problem I exprience was that 
when I used the special fill the merged cells would simply split to the number 
of cells I earlier merged.

I hope to hear from you soon. 

Johans
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