On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:39:26 -0700, "Heather"
wrote:
When I import to excel from our accounting system, negative numbers show the
minus sign at the right e.g. 100- instead of -100 or (100) Excel reads this
as text and I have to go through the list manually inserting a minus sign at
the left and deleting the minus sign from the right.
Is there any easier way to do this? The numbers are not a fixed length, so
the - could be the third or the thirteenth character in the cell.
What version of Excel do you have?
Later versions (2002+, possibly earlier) can do this automatically -- easiest
if your data to be converted is in columns.
Select the relevant column (one column at a time).
From the main menu, select Data/Text to Columns
Next
Next
Advanced: Ensure "Trailing minus for negative numbers" is SELECTED.
OK
Finish
If you have an earlier version, or a complicated distribution of numbers with
trailing negatives, post back and we can use a VBA routine.
--ron
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