Good afternoon all

I have a colleague who is extremely new to Excel and when he types a
negative value into a cell, he wants it to show brackets rather than the
minus sign. I realise this can be done by applying a Custom Number Format,
however, as he is a complete beginner with Excel, I have a feeling this will
be too confusing for him.

Is there another way that he can apply this formatting rather than setting
up a custom number format?

Thank you.

Louise