hi
no. conditional formating should do it.
in 2003 for neg numbers
cell value is.... less than......0........pick red
for pos number..
cell value is.... greater than......0........pick green

but what if the value is zero?? the above doesn't address that.
how about......
cell value is.... greater than or equal to......0........pick green
you can format the entire column all a once. not really recommended that you
do the "entire" column, just enough to cover your data.
read up on CF in 07. that i'm not up on yet.

Regards
FSt1

"OldManEd" wrote:

I have a column of numbers. Some are positive and others are negative. I
would like to color "red" the cell with negative numbers and 'green' the
positive numbers.

Is this possible in either Excel 2007 or Excel 2003? Do I need a macro?
OldEd

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