Yes. In the format cells option, under number, there are various number formats. Some enable negative values to be shown in red. You could even use Conditional Formatting to do it, but as there are already built-in formats, there is no need to do that.
You can use conditional formatting. You can set the rules to be values less that zero to be in red and other values to be green.
In the Accounting style, the numbers are in black when negative, compared to having the option of having them red in Currency when they are negative.
It is the "Format" that is applied to that cell's contents. Go to Excel Help and type "Format." There are lots of things including numbers which can be formatted. Numbers are in red if they are negative or greater or less than a limit.
Excel has many formats for numbers. The can be displayed with decimal points or as percentages or in Scientific notation or in currency and in a few other formats. They can have comma separation, so you could have 1,000,000 instead of 1000000. You can also format negative numbers to be displayed with a minus sign or in red. You can also set up custom formats for your numbers.
To do that you would use Conditional Formatting. You would set a rule to apply that range and set the formatting that you want for it.
The value is a negative number.
The color. red numbers usually represent negative as seen in bank accounts
The minus sign: - Negative values can also be indicated by showing them in red or having brackets around them.
You can set up a custom format. You can do that through the formatting settings. The standard format is: #,##0.00;[Red]-#,##0.00 You would change it to this: #,##0.00;(#,##0.00) The second part is for negative numbers, and so it will show it in brackets rather than in red with a minus sign before it. ======================== I don't know which version of the software you're using. I have the 2010 package. When I pull down Format / Cells and choose Number / Category 'Number', right there is a list of four different ways to indicate negative numbers.
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Positive numbers (credits) are denoted in black, and negative numbers (debits) are denoted in red. Being in the red means there is more debt than "cash on hand" and you are operating at a deficit.
Although the first set of rules for dealing with negative numbers was stated in the 7th century by the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta, in 1758 the British mathematician Francis Maseres was claiming that negative numbers "... darken the very whole doctrines of the equations and make dark of the things which are in their nature excessively obvious and simple" . In 200 BC the Chinese number rod system represented positive numbers in Red and Negative numbers in black. These were used for commercial and tax calculations where the black cancelled out the red. The amount sold was positive and the amount spent in purchasing something was negative so a money balance was positive, and a negative.
Let's say, for example, that you wanted all positive numbers to be green and all negative numbers to be red. Select all the cells that you want to be color-coded. Go to Conditional Formatting under the Home menu, select Highlight Cells Rules, and the Greater Than. Format Cells greater than 0 with Green Fill with Dark Green Text. To color-code the negative numbers, select the cells, choose Highlight Cells Rules under the Condition Formatting menu, and select less than. Format cells less than 0 with Light Red Fill with Dark Red Text. You can format cells that are equal to 0 using the Equal to option.