The setting is under "Currency" in Control Panel Regional and Language
OptionsCustomize

I know logically it should be under Numbers but is not.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 02:48:01 -0700, Patricia
wrote:

Although I have set up the defauilt in the Control Panel to make negative
numbers use brackets rather than the minus sign, in Excel 2003 under 'Format
Cells Number, there is no option for brackets at all. It used to work before
we had the software re-installed on new servers. Where might this setting be?