yeah I thought about that too but that does not seem very professional when
my boss looks at it...thanks anyhow!
"JonR" skrev:

> I'd think the easiest thing to do would be to hide column C. I'm assuming
> that you just don't like having it visible.
> --
> HTH
>
> JonR
>
>
> "Arne Hegefors" wrote:
>
> > Hello! I have a small problem. I have two columns, A and B. In these columns
> > there are returns for different bonds. In column C I calculate the diffence
> > between A and B (C1=A1-B1). In column D I want to calculate the standard
> > deviation of the difference dating 30 data points back. Thus, in D31 i write
> > =STDAV(C1:C30).
> >
> > This all works fine. However I want to skip having the C column and make the
> > calculations for the standard deviation of the dÃ*fference dierctly from the
> > values in A and B. However I have not managed to do so. Please help me out! I
> > know it does not sound worthwhile but having the extra column really messes
> > up my spreadsheet! Any help appreciated! Thanks alot!