Hi

Maybe you need to go to Control PanelRegional
SettingsCustomiseNegative number format.
On my machine I get the option for brackets even when this is set
to -1.1, but maybe for you, you need to set negative format to (1.1)

--
Regards

Roger Govier


"Ferd" wrote in message
...
Under - format - cells - number - negative numbers I do not have the
option
to choose 'brackets'