showing negative numbers

I am using this formula to show the amout of days between two dates.
=datedif(today(),a2,"d") this works well as long as the date in cell A2 is in the future. If todays date is after the the date in cell A2 It wont show the days as a negative number as I want it to. insted the cell shows this. #NUM! can anyone help with this. Thanks

Try this formula

=IF(TODAY()>A2,-DATEDIF(A2,TODAY(),"d"),DATEDIF(TODAY(),A2,"d"))

Try this

=A5-TODAY()

The formulas that you can insert with this Add-in are working also this way
http://www.rondebruin.nl/datarefiner.htm

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> I am using this formula to show the amout of days between two dates.
> =datedif(today(),a2,"d") this works well as long as the date in cell
> A2 is in the future. If todays date is after the the date in cell A2
> It wont show the days as a negative number as I want it to. insted the
> cell shows this. #NUM! can anyone help with this. Thanks
>
>
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