Hello,

I have a strange question and am looking for some help to answer this.

I have two machines, both running Office 2003 SP3. On one machine when I
format a cell to either Numbers or Currency I get the display to show
brackets () however on the other machine there are no Brackets shown. Both
Office versions are exactly the same, both machines are running XP SP3.

This is causing problems as on both machines worksheets need to be created
and when the one formats the cells they do not get the brackets which are
required.

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Cheers

If you want the ()'s to show up for negative numbers in the format|cells|number
tab, you'll have to change a windows setting.

Windows start button|control panel
regional and language options
regional options tab
click the customize button
currency tab
change the negative currency format to show ()'s.

Limey wrote:

Hello,

I have a strange question and am looking for some help to answer this.

I have two machines, both running Office 2003 SP3. On one machine when I
format a cell to either Numbers or Currency I get the display to show
brackets () however on the other machine there are no Brackets shown. Both
Office versions are exactly the same, both machines are running XP SP3.

This is causing problems as on both machines worksheets need to be created
and when the one formats the cells they do not get the brackets which are
required.

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Cheers

--

Dave Peterson