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 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 ...

All the cells of negative numbers will become red, while the positive numbers will remain the same. You can create your own custom format in Excel to highlight negative numbers. Select the range of ...

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, ...

Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started. Spreadsheets usually hold a wealth of information, but it ...

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, ...

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 ...

Trying to use an Excel Date and Time function, but Excel returns a serial number instead of date; this is because Excel stores dates and times in serial numbers in the backend; for instance, when you ...

How to avoid a conditional formatting rule in Excel that doesn’t work as expected Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a flexible tool that applies formatting on the ...