did you look at custom in the cell formats?
on the home tab, click the number format dropdown. select more number
formats and then custom.

if you don't see one you like, make one.

($123.00)


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Gary Keramidas
Excel 2003


"gew" wrote in message
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Hello all,
For some reason i cant get excel 2007 to display negative numbers as
brackets! i have looked at all the different formats for the cell, but
they
all show up negative numbers as a - sign.
when they are in brackets it is much easier to cee which numbers are
negative, is there a patch or something i can do to change this?
thanks