Might be the quotes aren't right. This works for me:

strFormatString = """$""#,##0_);(""$""#,##0)"

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Jim
"NickHK" wrote in message
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| Excel 03:
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| Any ideas why some NumberFormat strings fail ?
| e.g. "$"#,##0_);("$"#,##0)
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| Application.FindFormat.NumberFormat = strFormatString
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| Seems to error when a non-custom string is applied.
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| Found an old post from keepITcool to get the list of Built-in
numberformats,
| but prefer not to go that way.
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| 'Newsgroups: microsoft.public.Excel.programming
| 'Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:21:46 -0700
| 'Local: Fri 2 Jul 2004 07:21
| 'Subject: Leo Heuser format cleanup code, and a question
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| NickHK
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