Have you ever opened your spreadsheet only to find your carefully typed numbers missing their decimals, or worse, transformed into something like 2.95E+07? If yes, you’ve seen the downside of relying ...

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 ...

When you use Microsoft Excel to analyze your company's data, you want to spot trends, successes and problems at a glance. Before you dive into an in-depth examination of specific sales results, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Spacebar alignment breaks when columns, fonts, or layouts change, but Excel's custom number formatting keeps everything ...

I have an excel file that is the result of a conversion from PDF (I can't get the information in any other format unfortunately). The original document uses periods instead of commas to split numbers ...

You can find these settings via File > Options > Data in the Automatic data conversion section. This involves the following functions: Remove leading zeros and convert to number: For example, if you ...

Calculations resulting in values between 65534.99999999995 and 65535 were displayed as 100000, while results between 65535.99999999995 and 65536 appeared in spreadsheets as 100001. In both situations ...