Parentheses for Negative Percent Results - RESOLVED

RAN_MPA

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I have been able to format single cells to display negative percents (Budget to Actual hours), but I cannot copy the formatting to cells with positive percents without eliminating the format style I want. [I need to display, with the parenthesis, (13.6%)for negative results, but say, 18.6% for positive results.] When I copy the correctly formatted cell (13.6%) to another cell with a positive result, it sets the display to general formating.

As I have over 25 rows of data to compare against 62 projects and 12 programs, with each value potentially changing from one analysis to the other, I am looking for a method to automatically change the "look" of the results.

I have looked at conditional formatting, but have had no indication this will do what I am looking for.

Any ideas on how to perform this task?

Thanks.

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RAN_MPA
This message was edited by RAN_MPA on 2002-07-15 14:48
 

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