Hi Julie,

This sounds like a formatting problem. If so, select the data labels on the
chart and choose Format, Selected Data Labels, Number tab, and pick a better
format.
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Cheers,
Shane Devenshire


"juliejg1" wrote:

I have office 2003. I noticed that when I receive a chart from someone in an
earlier version of Excel, the negative data labels that were formatted with
brackets will have the brackets flipped backwards..like )123( instead of
(123). I can't seem to be able to correct this. Cannot even type in the
correct format right in the data label. Any suggestions?