Format Custom as

# ?/?;-#?/?

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"amescha" wrote in message ...
|I am having a problem with negative fractions. I am using MS Excel version
| 11.0 on Windows 2000 SP4, signed in as administrator. When I try formatting
| cells as #?/?
| or ?/? I find that the cell value becomes converted to a positive number.
| The values that I am using only need to be one significant figure as I am
| using ±1/3 and ±2/3.
| Any ideas of some kind of custome format that addresses negative values? I
| am using both negative and positive values and then adding all of the values
| in a short column of typically 6 cells. Thanks in advance.