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How to use GREP to make negative figures in red, INCLUDING past the decimal point?

Community Beginner ,
Aug 29, 2022 Aug 29, 2022

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Hello one and all! Im currently using a GREP style to change all my negative figures automatically into it's red colored character style, however it will not include the numebers that appear after the deeecimal point. Does anyone have a solution for this please?

 

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Im currently using -\$\d+

 

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Community Expert , Aug 29, 2022 Aug 29, 2022

Try this expression: 

-\d+(\.|)\d+

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Community Expert , Aug 29, 2022 Aug 29, 2022

I would use -\$?\d+\.?\d*

It should find negative numbers with or without the $ and well as with or without  a decimal.

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Community Expert ,
Aug 29, 2022 Aug 29, 2022

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Try this expression: 

-\d+(\.|)\d+

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I would use -\$?\d+\.?\d*

It should find negative numbers with or without the $ and well as with or without  a decimal.

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Aug 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022

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Oh my gosh, so close! Thanks for that. The only thing I need it to include now is the letter after the number, such as the 'M' to represent the Million. Please see here:

 

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Aug 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022

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Oh hang on! It worked, I just cleared the other overrides, your a legend Peter!

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Aug 31, 2022 Aug 31, 2022

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My expression shouldn't find a trailing letter, but that would be easy enough to add.

Stick a \u? on the end to get -\$?\d+\.?\d*\u? and it will add one uppercase letter if any exists.

This could be further modified to select only certain characters, say M, K, C, B, or T if you like, or to include upper and lowercase.

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