Hi everyone,

I just did a 'prove it' online excel test, where an interface similar
to excel is presented to the user and the user is asked to perform
certain functions. If you click on a menu item/button that does not
need to be used to achieve the function, then the program interrupts
you.

One of the questions was change the formatting so that negative
numbers appear with braces. Now, I could have sworn it was an option
under format cells/currency, but if I click there I only get four
options: black with preceding minus sign, red, black with preceding
negative sign (again), red with preceding negative sign. The interface
didn't let me click on 'Number' or 'Custom' (and thus a custom format
could not be chosen), and of course since it was a simulated
environment, I couldn't change any windows regional settings.

Is there any other way to make negative numbers display with brackets?
The sample was ([pound sign]-50.00), so the test was definitely asking
for a currency-type format.

Taras