The accounting format in Microsoft Excel 2010 is very similar to the currency format---both display the currency symbol next to every number. But the accounting format has a few differences that make ...

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 ...

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If you want to use a date format according to how another language displays dates, choose the language in Locale (location).

Applying direct formatting to spilled arrays in Excel could cause issues if the data changes shape or size. Formula-based conditional formatting rules allow for automatic formatting adjustments when ...

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...