Excel is well known for making personal and business accounting easier. Two tools that allow for this capability are the program's Currency and Accounting number formats, which—alongside many other ...

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 ...

Have you ever opened a spreadsheet and felt overwhelmed by a sea of unformatted numbers, struggling to make sense of the data? Whether it’s a financial report, survey results, or a project timeline, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If the Excel cell format is not changing to a number because the Number formatting is not working, take these steps to fix the issue. Remove both the Decimal and Thousand separators Numbers are ...

In my post on table formatting, I demonstrated how to transform your static data into a simple yet sexy database in a matter of seconds. If you don’t know how to use table formatting, go read that ...

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 ...

Excel responds to certain letter and number entries with automatic formatting. This makes sense in most cases, but sometimes it can be very annoying, as the user then has to switch back to the desired ...