Instead of showing big digits in a cell, you can format numbers in thousands, millions, and billions in Excel.

These newbie mistakes are uncalled for because Excel placed several number formatting options front and center in the Number section of the Home tab: Click for larger image.

You can set up conditional formatting in Excel for dates. We have included detailed examples you can try while reading the guide.

Thanks to the linked cell property in Microsoft Excel, it's super easy to use the selected value as a condition in a macro or conditional formatting rule.

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 ...

For the same reasons, values formatted with the Accounting number format are also right-aligned by default, though the currency symbol aligns to the left of the cell.

However, if you paste a differently formatted date, Excel accepts the source formatting. To further complicate the situation, Excel changes the format of the target cell to that of the pasted value!