Excel 2002 did include this new option. The Advanced button on the third
page of the wizard opens a dialog that has a "Trailing minus for negative
numbers" option. This is set on by default so that's why you saw different
parsing than in 2000.

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Jim
"Dust Bun" <Dust wrote in message
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|I am trying to do a text to columns operation on some data and I noticed an
| issue with a negative (-) sign. In Excel 2000, the wizard brings the - to
| the right of the cell, but in Excel 2002, Excel switches it automagically.
I
| know many ways to fix this, but I was wondering if this might have
something
| to do with the version of Excel. I might need to suggest an upgrade, but
I
| would need to back this up.
|
| Thanks!!!