Comments on: Sharing the Wealth: Random Excel Tip #5 http://blog.instantcognition.com/visualization/2008/04/01/sharing-the-wealth-random-excel-tip-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sharing-the-wealth-random-excel-tip-5 a discussion of visual report design & web analytics Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:13:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Clint http://blog.instantcognition.com/visualization/2008/04/01/sharing-the-wealth-random-excel-tip-5/comment-page-1/#comment-21028 Clint Wed, 07 May 2008 23:33:28 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=196#comment-21028 @Frank: Where did you encounter this format? As far as I can tell, all it does is specify to use commas to separate thousands, 2 significant digits and append the text "($%-409)" to whatever value is entered in the cell. @Frank: Where did you encounter this format? As far as I can tell, all it does is specify to use commas to separate thousands, 2 significant digits and append the text “($%-409)” to whatever value is entered in the cell.

]]> By: Frank http://blog.instantcognition.com/visualization/2008/04/01/sharing-the-wealth-random-excel-tip-5/comment-page-1/#comment-21022 Frank Wed, 07 May 2008 18:42:21 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=196#comment-21022 What is this - #,##0.00($%-409) ? What is this – #,##0.00($%-409) ?

]]> By: Clint http://blog.instantcognition.com/visualization/2008/04/01/sharing-the-wealth-random-excel-tip-5/comment-page-1/#comment-20343 Clint Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:18:59 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=196#comment-20343 Andy, glad to be of service! Andy,
glad to be of service!

]]> By: andy http://blog.instantcognition.com/visualization/2008/04/01/sharing-the-wealth-random-excel-tip-5/comment-page-1/#comment-20342 andy Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:43:59 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=196#comment-20342 Looking how to show negative percentages as red and bracketed, and Clint's suggestion works perfectly, and then went to Jon's article/site...great stuff! Thanks to you both! Looking how to show negative percentages as red and bracketed, and Clint’s suggestion works perfectly, and then went to Jon’s article/site…great stuff! Thanks to you both!

]]> By: Clint http://blog.instantcognition.com/visualization/2008/04/01/sharing-the-wealth-random-excel-tip-5/comment-page-1/#comment-20314 Clint Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:51:07 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=196#comment-20314 Hey Jon, thanks for the explanation, that would have never occured to me! Readers, if you don't already know and use Jon's site I encourage you to do so. The article he links to above is quite extensive and has lots of useful information on customizing numbers. Thanks again Jon. Hey Jon,
thanks for the explanation, that would have never occured to me!

Readers, if you don’t already know and use Jon’s site I encourage you to do so. The article he links to above is quite extensive and has lots of useful information on customizing numbers.

Thanks again Jon.

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://blog.instantcognition.com/visualization/2008/04/01/sharing-the-wealth-random-excel-tip-5/comment-page-1/#comment-20310 Jon Peltier Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:12:40 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=196#comment-20310 The underscore means leave a space as wide as the next character. _) leaves a space as wide as the close paren after the positive number, so the positive and negative numbers will line up. I have so many favorite custom number formats that I wrote a whole tutorial about them: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/NumberFormats.html The underscore means leave a space as wide as the next character. _) leaves a space as wide as the close paren after the positive number, so the positive and negative numbers will line up.

I have so many favorite custom number formats that I wrote a whole tutorial about them:
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/NumberFormats.html

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