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 you find yourself struggling trying to efficiently format large numbers in Excel spreadsheets. Manually adjusting figures to display in thousands or millions, you will be pleased to know that there ...

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 ...

Excel displays the original number up to 11 digits. When you enter a number that has more than 11 digits, Excel does not display the original value. Instead, it displays the number in the exponential ...

Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started. Spreadsheets usually hold a wealth of information, but it ...

How to use conditional formatting to highlight rank in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel’s RANK.EQ() function shows the relationship between values by ranking those items by ...

Checkboxes in Microsoft Excel are a great tool for tracking progress, improving data organization, and adding an extra layer ...

2 ways to display negative numbers in red in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent To enter a negative value into a Microsoft Excel sheet, precede the value with a hyphen character, (-), which ...

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 ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

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