How to Get Decimals to Line Up in Excel. If you're using Excel to calculate monetary values, then you only have to worry about two decimal places in your numbers.

Using Excel's number format tool means you can ensure your spreadsheet both looks the part and handles your data exactly how you want it to.

For the same reasons, values formatted with the Accounting number format are also right-aligned by default, though the currency symbol aligns to the left of the cell.

By placing a zero before the decimal, the number is more readily recognized as less than one. By configuring a custom number format you can tell Excel to remove leading zeros.