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Hello, I need your expertise. I'm stuck on this issue with formating.
Why is there a negative symbol in front of the red arrow with any number larger than -50? the issue is only seen in the numbers larger than -50. Please see the images.
Thank you for your help!
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Hi @SamFaM
I believe you can get the result you want with this format string expression:
"#,##0.0%;" & UNICHAR ( 128315 ) & " (0.0%);#,##0.0%"
You can make use of the positive;negative;zero structure rather than having to write a conditional expression, and generally a format string expression should produce a format string rather than a value formatted with a format string (using FORMAT).
As to the odd behaviour where only values less than -50% included the "-", I believe this is due to an odd bug where values are "rounded" by some internal calculation before being classified as positive/negative/zero.
Regards
Hi @OwenAuger Thank you.
I appreciate the help. We will wait and see if this specific bug is resolved in the future.
Hi @SamFaM
I believe you can get the result you want with this format string expression:
"#,##0.0%;" & UNICHAR ( 128315 ) & " (0.0%);#,##0.0%"
You can make use of the positive;negative;zero structure rather than having to write a conditional expression, and generally a format string expression should produce a format string rather than a value formatted with a format string (using FORMAT).
As to the odd behaviour where only values less than -50% included the "-", I believe this is due to an odd bug where values are "rounded" by some internal calculation before being classified as positive/negative/zero.
Regards
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