Sometimes when I’m working with an Excel worksheet and I want a cell to look a certain way, I run into what appears to be a limitation in the program. It might be trying to enter product numbers with ...

Have you tried to enter a fraction into your Excel sheet, but when you press enter, it turns into a serial, whole, or decimal number, and you have no clue what to do? In Microsoft Excel, you can ...

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 ...

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 ...

In my post on table formatting, I demonstrated how to transform your static data into a simple yet sexy database in a matter of seconds. If you don’t know how to use table formatting, go read that ...

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, ...

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 ...

Trying to use an Excel Date and Time function, but Excel returns a serial number instead of date; this is because Excel stores dates and times in serial numbers in the backend; for instance, when you ...

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 ...