Excel has several custom formatting options for duration of time, and it will recognize most times you enter, provided you use a colon between the hours, minutes and seconds.

Excel may return a serial number instead of a date; because it is stored thus in the backend. Learn how to convert Serial Number to Date.

You can follow any one of these methods below to convert numbers stored as text to numbers in Microsoft Excel: Using the Text to column button Using Value function Changing the format Use Paste ...

Convert to currency. This option will left-align the dollar symbol and right-align the number. Technically, this is referred to as Accounting formatting.

When you use Excel's Chart Wizard to create a chart, by default the chart takes on the number formats used in the worksheet that includes the charted data. Mary Ann Richardson shows you a way to ...