Out on a limb here but IIRC in the 2003 version if you installed XL using
Canada as your location you did not get brackets. I guess they thought us
Canadian accountants didn't use Brackets. The US version has brackets so the
standard fix was to change your location to US... Not sure if that applies to
you or if it has been changed in 2007...
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Rinke Gill" wrote:

I would like my negative numbers in Excel to display in brackets. This is
what the "accounting" category under "format cells" allowed us to do in the
2003 version. I cannot find a way to do this under any of the category
options in "format cells". It is driving me nuts, please help if anyone knows!

If there is no such option, please update excel 2007 to include this. It is
very important to have this function for us accountants!
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Rinke