Hi Gord Dibben & Alan,

Thanks for your earlier response. I changed the settings in control panel.
Initially it had the '-' and it now shows (), however, my drop down box in
numbers format still doesn't have the () and will not allow me to format
negatives in parenthesis. Can you figure out what else I might need to do?

Thanks so much for your help

regards
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Pandorad


"Pandorad" wrote:

How do I get negative numbers in brackets if <Format<Cells<Numbers drop down
box does not show negative numbers in parenthesis. My spreadsheet shows
negative numbers with a '-' minus sign.

Thank you
Sheron