This tutorial shows the steps to use Automatic Data Type in Microsoft Excel. It allows you to insert details of cities, food items, music, animals, persons, etc, automatically.

To stop this automatic simplification, you need to tell Excel what denominator to use. In other words, to keep "4/6" as is, you must force Excel to stick with "6" as the bottom number in the fraction.

Excel filters help you find exactly what you want, no matter how big your spreadsheet database is. Here's how to set number, text and data filters.