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 ...

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 ...

In a previous tip I showed you how to create numbers with leading zeros by typing either an apostrophe in front of the leading zero or a space somewhere in the number. But what if you require the ...

In this article, we will show you how to create, delete, and use a Custom List in Microsoft Excel. The Custom List feature is useful for users who have to type a specific list in every Excel ...

In a previous tip I explained how to display numbers with leading zeros. I also explained in another tip how to format numbers with a leading zero. Here I am going to explain how to display that ...

How to force a consistent phone number format in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent Combine an Excel custom format with data validation and remove the pressure ...

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 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 ...