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spreadsheets

ResolvedVersion 2003

Liz has attended:
Excel Advanced course
Excel Intermediate course

Spreadsheets

How to quickly format a spreedsheet to see negative nos. in brackets

RE: Spreadsheets

Dear Liz

Thank you for attending Excel Intermediate course!! I hope you enjoyed the course and benefited from it.

To achieve your results please follow these steps:

1. Select the cells that you wish to format

2. Choose Format > Cells from the Menu Bar

3. Choose Custom from the category section

4. Enter the following code #,##0;(#,##0);0

5. Press Ok button.


I hope this has answered your query.

If this has answered your query then I would request you to please mark the question as resolved!! If not and you have a specific question related to this then please post it as a new question and we should be able to provide you the solution for it!!

Kindest Regards


Rajeev Rawat
MOS Master Instructor 2000 and 2003
MCAS Master Instructor 2007
MCT

Mon 20 Apr 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.

Excel tip:

Generate randon numbers

Some types of analysis require you to use randomly generated numbers. You can also use randomly generated numbers to quickly populate an Excel spreadsheet. There's an easy function you can use to do this automatically. Here are a few of the ways you can use it:

Type =RAND() in a cell to generate a number between 0 and 1.
Type =RAND()*100 to generate a number between 1 and 100.

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