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We have already dealt with some of the basic functions of Microsoft Excel, an application of the MS Office suite. In this part, we look at the various kinds of formatting capabilities Excel provides.

Microsoft Excel 2007's conditional formatting feature allows you to format cells based on certain criteria. As an example, you might want the row color to change based upon a credit or debit on a ...

The cells in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet can hold various types of numerical data, including fractions and percentages. If some or all of your cells contain fractions, Excel enables you to convert ...

Do you want to format an object or text with the same formatting as the previous one but want to save time than formatting the new object? You can use Format Painter in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Q. When I paste a large amount of data into Excel containing dates as far back as the 1800s, the recent dates display correctly as valid dates, but the older dates automatically convert to text. I ...

2 ways to display negative numbers in red in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent To enter a negative value into a Microsoft Excel sheet, precede the value with a hyphen character, (-), which ...

Fix "fake" numbers, strip hidden web spaces, and join text professionally using Excel's built-in legacy and modern tools.