Thank you...I don't know why I couldn't figure out how to do pos & neg. -
this makes sense now that I see it here. Do you know how to save custom
number formats so when you open a new worksheet you can find the same format
again? I've found that in every worksheet I have to add the custom number
format.

"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

Make that:

$#,###,;$(#,###,)

I'm just not paying attention today <g

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"clnickson" wrote in message
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I've created a work around by creating a positvie and a negative custom
number format under format cells but I haven't been able to create one custom
format that works for both positive and negative numbers that can be applied
to a range of cells. There must be an easier way. I want to be able to
highlight a number of cells and have it automatically round those cells to
the nearest thousand and drop the ,000 from $989,000 so it displays as $989.