Use the following formatting switch

{ MERGEFIELD INT \# "'+'#;'-'#;' 0'" }

A decimal tab might be another solution

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"Lee Harris" wrote in message
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I'm trying to format some number fields so that positive numbers are
preceeded by a "+" and negative by the "-" and zero by space " " so they
all line up nicely

looking at a text file I have, it seems I want this:

+ (plus sign)
Adds a plus sign to a positive result, a minus sign to a negative result,
or a space if the result is 0 (zero). For example, { = 100 - 90 \# +## }
displays "+10", and { = 90 - 100 \# +## } displays "-10".
%, $, *, and so on



this is my mergefield (an example), but I can't get it to work with the
above format

{ MERGFIELD "INT" }


I tried

{ MERGFIELD \# +## "INT" } and
{ MERGFIELD "INT" \# +## }

but these didn't seem to work

can anyone help?

tx in advance
LeeH