Question

So does anyone know if there is an mso-number-format to mimic the Accounting format in Excel (Negatives are put in parens, zeros are dashes, all have 2 decimals and everything gets a dollar sign waaaay to the left)

I have an html table that i am opening in excel that i would Love to have this format.

I found the following one online, but it doens’t seem to work:

mso-number-format:\#\,\#\#0\.00_\)\;\[Black\]\\(\#\,\#\#0\.00\\)

Thanks

Answer 1

This is the string that I return from C# that gives a true Accounting format in Excel:

"\"_-$* #,##0.00_-;-$* #,##0.00_-;_-$* \\\" - \\\"??_-;_-@_-\""

Some important things to note when dealing with mso-number-format:

• All custom formats must be surrounded
  in double quotes
• Any double quotes
  ‘inside’ the custom format must be
  replaced by literal “escaped double
  quotes”, for Excel to interpret
  later.

So, you want the actual markup to be outputted like this

"_-$* #,##0.00_-;-$* #,##0.00_-;_-$* \" - \"??_-;_-@_-"

Hope this helps