I asked about this on the xml-dev list. Here's what Tim Bray said: I commonly see this in financial reports from corporations. Thus, I bet it's available as an Excel number format.
/Roger -----Original Message----- From: Steve Lawrence <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2019 8:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXT] Re: What data formats have negative numbers wrapped in parentheses? I've don't know of any data formats specifically, but I believe it's fairly common in financial/accounting data. On 8/19/19 8:05 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote: > Steve wrote this last week: > > You'll sometimes see data formats that have negative numbers wrapped in > parenthesis instead of prefixed with a minus sign. > > Steve, can you identify the data format (or data formats) that do this, > please? > > /Roger >
