See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Roger" wrote in message
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I have a table were I am getting information from an excel spreed sheet. I
want my 'Total" column to give the result if negative with ( ) and not the
negative sign. how do I make this happen.

thanks