Open the Excel 2010 file that contains the phone numbers you want to change. Click on the cell that contains the phone number, or click on the range of cells if you want to change the format for ...

The formatting of Excel functions comes with several options, such as up to one digit, two digits, three digits, halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths, etc. How to display Numbers as Fractions in ...

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 ...

Padding Numbers In the previous example you saw that we can format numbers and force then to display a fixed number of decimal places. The 0.00 part of the custom format makes this happen. For example ...

If you are unaware of Microsoft Excel's "Format Cells" option, then you will discover it offers a wealth of formatting possibilities. Aside from the many built-in number formats, Excel allows you ...

Using Custom Formatting 1] Using Conditional Formatting In Excel, you can format a negative number by creating a Conditional Formatting rule. Select the range of cells containing the numbers.

Excel gives you quite a few options to choose from under Number > Date in the Format Cells dialog (which, again, you get to by pressing Ctrl-1 or Command-1 on the Mac).

In Excel for the web, choose More Number Formats from the Number dropdown. In the resulting window, choose Currency from the Category list — if you’ve already assigned a Currency format, Excel ...