Center and Left-Aligning Numbers When you enter text into a cell in Microsoft Excel, it aligns to the left, and when you enter a numerical value, it aligns to the right.

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 ...

Similarly, it's easy to forget to type the currency symbol when you're focusing on the numbers that follow, so using Excel's built-in number format converter is the way forward.

The Number format in Microsoft Excel is quite powerful, but sometimes it will fail to work, and that’s a problem for advanced users. When this happens, Excel will not recognize values as numbers.

Microsoft Office Excel can be configured to display a number with the default currency symbol. In addition to the options for currency symbols, the format has options for the number of decimal ...

Microsoft has released a patch for Excel 2007 to fix a bug that caused certain numbers to be displayed incorrectly. Calculations resulting in values between 65534.99999999995 and 65535 were ...

Excel's conditional formatting lets you formats cells based on the value of those cells or their formulas. Learn the basics of this amazing feature.