>I need a control that displays negative dollar amounts in red and with parenthesis instead of a minus sign. I will use it for data entry as well as inside grid controls - the latter for display only, not data entry.
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>I've been able to use an assign method on the Value property to change the forecolor if the value is negative. (It got a little tricky with using the control in a grid, but I've gotten it to work.) What I'm having trouble with is removing the negative sign and using parenthesis instead. I haven't found any format code or input mask that will do this. Any ideas?

If you have a textbox classed to accept the value, you could use ABS() to get rid of the minus sign, in one of its methods - say prog...change() or valid(). An IIF() could change the colour dep. on +/-.