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A user wants to have a negative formatted with the minus sign AFTER the
number. For example: 56.14-

Can this be done? I need to have be a true number that can be used in a
calculation such as adding up a column.

Thanks for any ideas.
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it's a windows setting- start/settings/control panel/regional and lang
options/customize

"robinjoyce" wrote:

A user wants to have a negative formatted with the minus sign AFTER the
number. For example: 56.14-

Can this be done? I need to have be a true number that can be used in a
calculation such as adding up a column.

Thanks for any ideas.
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Default Negative Number

Custom format

0.00;0.00-

or

General;General-


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A user wants to have a negative formatted with the minus sign AFTER the
number. For example: 56.14-

Can this be done? I need to have be a true number that can be used in a
calculation such as adding up a column.

Thanks for any ideas.
--
Robin Joyce



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