Thanks! Building on that, I realized that ##,##0,_);(#,##0,);0_) will do
what I want. I just had to replace the last # with a 0.

"JE McGimpsey" wrote:

One way:

[<=-500](#,##0,);[<500]\0_);#,##0,_)

Note, however, that negative values greater than -500 will display as -0.



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AnneM wrote:

With custom format to display in thousands, how do I get <500 and -500 to
display as zero instead of blank?
I am currently using #,###,_);(#,###,);0_) which shows 0 if value is zero,
but not if value 0 and <500.
I tried conditions, such as [=500]#,###,;[<=-500](#,###,) but can't figure
out what to do for (<500 and -500).