Hello all-

I have imported a column of numbers into an Excel 2003 spreadsheet from an
in house program. When there is a number in the column that is negative, it
displays the negative sign after the number (45.50- instead of -45.50). Is
there a way to move the negative sign for the entire column to the front of
the number? Thanks - Jason

One possibility would be =IF(RIGHT(A1,1)="-",-LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1),A1) .
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David Biddulph

"ohdharleyboy" wrote in message
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Hello all-

I have imported a column of numbers into an Excel 2003 spreadsheet from an
in house program. When there is a number in the column that is negative,
it
displays the negative sign after the number (45.50- instead of -45.50).
Is
there a way to move the negative sign for the entire column to the front
of
the number? Thanks - Jason

DataText to ColumnsNextNextAdvanced "Trailing minus for negative numbers"

Make sure you checkmark the option to "on"

Then Finish


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 09:49:00 -0800, ohdharleyboy
wrote:

Hello all-

I have imported a column of numbers into an Excel 2003 spreadsheet from an
in house program. When there is a number in the column that is negative, it
displays the negative sign after the number (45.50- instead of -45.50). Is
there a way to move the negative sign for the entire column to the front of
the number? Thanks - Jason