How to subtract in a calculation in Acrobat Pro 9

How would you write this if you were wanting to subtract dates? I'm using Acrobat 9 as well. Thank you!

George - thank you so much! I didn't ask the question, but I certainly benefited from your assistance. Thanks so much! -dave

works!

your the best, gonna try it out!

I should not have said you *need* to use JavaScript, because you can also use the "simplified field notation" option, but as you come to do more than the simplest of calculations, JavaScript is what you'll need.

If you want to use the simplified field notation option, you'd enter:

Text1 - Text2

but you'd replace Text1 and Text2 above with the names of your fields.

George

You will need to use JavaScript in a field's custom calculation script. For example:

// Get first field value

var v1 = getField("Text1").value;



// Get second field value

var v2 = getField("Text2").value;



// Set this field value equal to the difference

event.value = v1 - v2;

You would replace "Text1" and "Text2" with the names of the fields you've set up.

George