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 ...

Number formats in Microsoft Excel define how data is displayed in your spreadsheet without changing the underlying values. As well as using number formats to present data as dates, times, percentages, ...

If you are unaware of Microsoft Excel's "Format Cells" option, then you will discover it offers a wealth of formatting possibilities. Aside from the many built-in number formats, Excel allows you to ...

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 ...

Do you need to create a spreadsheet that will calculate a range of cells according to certain criteria? In addition, if you want to see something else in the cell to what you type in it that perhaps ...

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, ...

Excel has a Format Painter tool that allows you to copy formatting from one cell or group of cells to another without copying their contents. Cell formatting includes everything from font size and ...

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 ...

Although Google Sheets and Excel Online are two of the best free online spreadsheets editing apps, you may not like certain features of them. For example, the date format. In case you do not want to ...