Enter this as your cutom format: #,##0;[Red]-#,##0;- It will give you the dash for a zero and comma'd numbers. Ray ------------------------------------ GR Business Process Solutions Ray Blake Head of Software Design ray@xxxxxxxxx Braedon Newell Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP3 9PD tel: 01442 396518 fax: 01442 389353 mobile: 07834 226601 ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of cb Sent: 09 November 2004 18:34 To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Excell Linda, will get back to you after I finish this project about the brackets thing, I was obvously doing something wrong. However, client has a wierd request for formatting of numbers... He wants a null field to have a - in it (which is easy) however, he ALSO wants to display the figures (if they exist) in comma separated format i.e. 50,000 in lieu of 50000 , any ideas on this format situation?? Been a long time since I have worked this size sheet, grin it's over 3 meg in size and he does not want a database, wants it in spreadsheet. CB ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************