On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 10:11 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hi all,
> We're using OOo 2.0.1.
> One of the users asked whether we can use bracket instead of minus sign for 
> negative value in Calc. 
> 
> Ex:
> Intead of -5000, she wants it: (5000)
> 
> How do we format the cell? 

I think there is some builtin formats for this, but otherwise
you can do it with a format string such as:

[$$-C09]#,##0;[RED]([$$-C09]#,##0)

This will give you the (5000) in Red with dollar sign.
If you do not want the dollar sign, drop them out of the above.

Regards
Jonathon
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