The simplest solution is to place the text “lbs” entry in the cell to the right of your value. This works but it’s not appropriate in all situations, and there is a smarter solution using Excel’s ...

Color Numbers Based on Their Values Custom number format in Excel lets you define the color of the text in selected cells according to their values. What's more, for the main eight colors (black ...

Combine an Excel custom format with data validation and remove the pressure for input perfection from personnel by letting Excel do the work.

Use a custom format in Microsoft Excel to reduce the number of digits in a large number without losing its scale.

To suppress the display of the thousands separator, select the "Number" numeric format. To suppress the thousands separator and still display currency symbols, create a custom format.

Let’s see how to do it. How to Format Number as Currency in Excel Excel users wanting to display numbers as monetary values, must first format those numbers as currency.

Excel provides one general formula that finds the difference between numbers, dates and times. It also provides some advanced options to apply custom formats to your results.