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Can anyone explain how to conditionally change the text colour in a
spreadsheet - for example show negative numbers in red and positive numbers
black ?
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Select the cell.
Click on Format, Conditional formatting.
next to Cell Value is, click on the dropdown, and select Less than. In the
adjacent box insert a 0
click on Add
Select your font colour
Click on Add, change Between to greeater than, and repeat.
OK out

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Can anyone explain how to conditionally change the text colour in a
spreadsheet - for example show negative numbers in red and positive numbers
black ?
Many thanks.

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one other way without conditional formatting
select the cells
right click and select Format Cells
in Number tab, select Number
choose the format you want from Negative numbers
OK out
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