When you apply Microsoft Excel's percentage number format to a cell already containing a number, it multiplies the value by 100. This can be frustrating, as there's apparently no easy way to stop this ...

Have you ever opened your spreadsheet only to find your carefully typed numbers missing their decimals, or worse, transformed into something like 2.95E+07? If yes, you’ve seen the downside of relying ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells. For example, ...

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 ...

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, ...

I have an excel file that is the result of a conversion from PDF (I can't get the information in any other format unfortunately). The original document uses periods instead of commas to split numbers ...

Microsoft has released a patch for Excel 2007 to fix a bug that caused certain numbers to be displayed incorrectly. The bug occurred in Excel 2007 and in SharePoint Server 2007's Excel Services. The ...