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matthewsb419
New Contributor II
8 days ago
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Cheat sheet for Formatting Syntax

Hi, Can someone point me to a syntax cheat sheet for formatting cube views and reports in Excel? I'm trying to get this number to show in thousands and have my negative numbers be in red...
Cube View
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MarcusH
Valued Contributor
5 days ago

Try this:

ExcelNumberFormat = [#,##0,;[Red](#,##0,)]

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    matthewsb419
    New Contributor II
    5 days ago

    Hi Marcus,

    Thanks for this suggestion, is there somewhere I can learn this? I'd love to be able to understand how this syntax solved my problems versus the earlier two versions I tried.  I'm trying to learn :)