http://www.intersoftsolutions.com/Community/WebGrid/Formatting-cell-for-Accounting-Format/http://www.intersoftsolutions.comenCopyright 2002 - 2015 Intersoft Solutions Corp. All rights reserved.60http://www.intersoftsolutions.com/Community/WebGrid/Formatting-cell-for-Accounting-Format/Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:22:59 GMTbbucherDataFormatStringAccounting<p>Sorry!  Please ignore this.  I just figured it out - it was a typo on my part.</p>http://www.intersoftsolutions.com/Community/WebGrid/Formatting-cell-for-Accounting-Format/Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:14:20 GMTbbucherDataFormatStringAccounting<p>I'm formatting cells a read-only webgrid (one by one) in code-behind, and it's successful so far.  The only bits I'm missing is that I need accounting formats: </p> <p>negative numbers should be formatted like "(123)" instead of "-123", and </p> <p>zeros should be "-" rather than "0".</p> <p>I've tried the dataformatstring = "$#,##0.00;($#,##0.00);-" but that doesn't seem to work.  Do you have any suggestions?</p> <p>Many thanks!</p> <p>Beryl</p>