Microsoft Office Excel can be configured to display a number with the default currency symbol. In addition to the options for currency symbols, the format has options for the number of decimal places ...

Excel has a surprising limitation that you may not discover until you try to enter more than 15 digits in a cell. The application can only store numbers with15 digits of precision. If you enter a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If your Excel cell or row contains two or more values, you can split that data across multiple cells. For Excel to divide the values, however, the cell must contain a delimiter, a character that ...

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, ...