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 ...

In Microsoft Excel, you can convert a number into a fraction using the Fraction format. Learn how to display Numbers as Fractions in Excel.

This is a very long number and, to ensure consistent number formatting, it would be nice if Excel could do the work for you. The solution is to use a built-in format.

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 ...

Color Numbers Based on Their Values Custom number format in Excel lets you define the color of the text in selected cells according to their values. What's more, for the main eight colors (black ...

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 ...

How to Format Debits and Credits in Excel. 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 ...

Type an apostrophe before entering or pasting two numbers separated by a hyphen in Microsoft Excel to keep the numbers from being converted to their month and date equivalent.