Delete the minus sign and press Shift+9 before the number and Shift+0 after
the number.
Or... did you mean automatically? If you mean automatically, Word does not
have the ability to format numbers in that way--for that, you could use
Excel. One way would be to embed an Excel worksheet inside Word to use as
the basis for your table. That way you would have all of Excel's
capabilities when editing and formatting the table.
--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog:
http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web:
http://www.herbtyson.com
"jr" wrote in message
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how do I get the negative numbers to appear in parens instead of the
negative
sign in front of it?