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Formatting Negative Percentages

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    Formatting Negative Percentages

    Hi,

    I have a column of numbers in percentage form and shown to one decimal place.

    Can someone please tell me how to format the numbers so that negative numbers appear in red font and in brackets, without the minus sign?

    Thanks!
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    Re: Formatting Negative Percentages

    Conditional formatting.
    Highlight the column range, Format the column to Number & Brackets, go to CF Highlight Cell Rules, < less than, enter -1 in the range box, select custom format, font red.

    Or if you need the % sign sign, change the number format to custom, and use 0.0_);[Red](0.0)"%"
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    Re: Formatting Negative Percentages

    Thank you!

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