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Hi Folks, I have heard that in some financial and/or accounting data formats negative numbers are wrapped in parenthesis instead of prefixed with a minus sign. For example, the following represents negative twelve: (12) Do you know what data formats use parentheses to indicate a negative value? /Roger
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