Microsoft designed Excel to work well with large numbers, but there are times when things can go awry. For example, when folks enter numbers that are more than 11 digits, they are converted right away ...

If you ever enter a very large number into a cell, you’ll notice that Microsoft Excel displays it in scientific notation. For example, when you enter the number 1231231231234 in a cell, Excels ...

Excel responds to certain letter and number entries with automatic formatting. This makes sense in most cases, but sometimes it can be very annoying, as the user then has to switch back to the desired ...

Microsoft has added a new setting to Excel, which addresses a years-long automatic reformatting problem that could ruin scientific data. In a Microsoft 365 blog post on 19 October 2023, Excel team ...