I believe you can use Text-to-Columns if you have Excel 2000 or later.

Try this:

Select the column range of cells to be impacted

From the Excel main menu:
<data<text-to-columns
.....click [Next] until Step 3 of 3

Click the [Advanced] button
.....Check: "Trailing minus sign for negative numbers"....Click [OK]

Click [Finish]

Does that help?
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Regards,
Ron

XL2003, WinXP


" wrote:

Hi

I have a column of data.


Unfortunately the negative symbol is on the right of the numbers to
represent a negative number.


What I need is a macro to look down a column and if it find the first
character to the right of that cell is a "-" symbol then move that to
the first character on the left of the cell to make the numbers
negative.


I hope this is possible and someone can help,


Thank you so much in advance,

Andrea