No Negative Numbers in a Cell

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How do I stop a cell from accepting a negative number and display an error message?

Thanks for any input.
 

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Goto Data-->Validation-->Settings-->Allow--Whole Number-->Data-->Greater Than-->Minimum-->0. Then Enter your message on the Error Alert tab.

Hope that helps,

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