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Change appearance of a negative #

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    Change appearance of a negative #

    Is there a way to change the format of a cell to make a negative number llok different?

    Example: original# -123.50
    Change to: 123.50CR
    Last edited by bobbied; 04-09-2010 at 05:49 PM.

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    Re: Change appearance of a negative #

    Perhaps custom format as:

    0.00;0.00C\R;-;@

    this also replace 0's with a dash....
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    Re: Change appearance of a negative #

    You could perhaps use a Custom Format ? eg:

    #,##0.00"DR";#,##0.00"CR";0.00;@

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    Re: Change appearance of a negative #

    Maybe should've been


    0.00;0.00"CR";-;@

    this also replace 0's with a dash....

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