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[archive] negative sign with currency symbol

  • April 19, 2010
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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 19 April 2010]

I want my report to show
-$100.00

The acu docmentation tells me that the - sign and $ are mutually exclusive in a pic clause. I can set it up to show,
$100.00-
but when the report is exported to excel it does not recognize that as a negative number since the - sign is trailing. If I set up as -$$$,$$$.99 it shows the minus sign but it looks like:

- $100.00

with the - sign to the far left. I would like it to float to just to the left of the $ sign.

I am missing something simple here as I cannot seem to achieve this,

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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 19 April 2010]

I want my report to show
-$100.00

The acu docmentation tells me that the - sign and $ are mutually exclusive in a pic clause. I can set it up to show,
$100.00-
but when the report is exported to excel it does not recognize that as a negative number since the - sign is trailing. If I set up as -$$$,$$$.99 it shows the minus sign but it looks like:

- $100.00

with the - sign to the far left. I would like it to float to just to the left of the $ sign.

I am missing something simple here as I cannot seem to achieve this,
Hi Mike,

I might be able to take a look at this sometime this week. How is your application exporting the report to Excel? A small sample program will help.