Not Using a Recognized Date Format When you enter a value into a cell that Excel recognizes as a date, the number format in the Number group of the Home tab will change to either Date or Custom.

Built-in Smart Formats Now let’s move to the situation where you want to include phone numbers in a worksheet. In the U.S. that means you will be entering a nine-digit number into a cell. This is a ...

How to Format Debits and Credits in Excel. 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 ...

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 ...

Formatting numbers in Excel for clarity is crucial when managing large datasets. Two primary techniques for automatic number formatting: custom number format codes and a formula-based approach ...

These newbie mistakes are uncalled for because Excel placed several number formatting options front and center in the Number section of the Home tab: Click for larger image.

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 ...

You can stop Excel from rounding large numbers by changing the cell format from General to Number. This trick works for numbers containing 15 or less than 15 digits.

If numbers keep changing to dates automatically in Excel or if Excel changes dates to random numbers then this post will help you fix the issue.

We asked Rob Griffithsu2014our go-to expert on spreadsheetsu2014to use Excel 2008 and Numbers u201908 to create the same project, progressing from the basics (text entry and formatting) to more ...