You could enter the following fomula in the column next to it

="(" & A1 &")"

Alternatively you could select the cells and run the macro below

Sub Test()
Dim cell As Range
For Each cell In Selection
cell.Value = "(" & cell.Value & ")"
Next cell

End Sub

James

"Terri" <Terri@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a column in Excel that I want to enclose the contents with brackets
>in
> every cell. Is there an easy way to do that?