When you type a seven-or-ten-digit phone number into an Excel cell that uses the phone number format, Excel will automatically change the way the number looks so that it appears as a phone number. If ...

If you find yourself struggling trying to efficiently format large numbers in Excel spreadsheets. Manually adjusting figures to display in thousands or millions, you will be pleased to know that there ...

The accounting format in Microsoft Excel 2010 is very similar to the currency format---both display the currency symbol next to every number. But the accounting format has a few differences that make ...

Have you tried entering a fraction into your Excel sheet, only to have it convert to a serial, whole, or decimal number when you press Enter, and you have no clue what to do? In Microsoft Excel, you ...

Sometimes when I’m working with an Excel worksheet and I want a cell to look a certain way, I run into what appears to be a limitation in the program. It might be trying to enter product numbers with ...

When you apply Microsoft Excel's percentage number format to a cell already containing a number, it multiplies the value by 100. This can be frustrating, as there's apparently no easy way to stop this ...

Conditional Formatting in Excel can be considered a valuable utility that can help visually enhance the data analysis and presentation in the spreadsheet by applying particular formatting based on pre ...

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells. For example, ...