The first step in making a spreadsheet readable is to tidy up the cell formatting. By smartly using cell borders, shading, data validation, and other formatting techniques, you can improve the visual ...

Sometimes when I’m working with an Excel worksheet and I want a cell to look a certain way, I run into what appears to be a limitation in the program. It might be trying to enter product numbers with ...

If the Excel cell format is not changing to a number because the Number formatting is not working, take these steps to fix the issue. Remove both the Decimal and Thousand separators Numbers are ...

How to use the selected value in a combo to determine conditional formatting in Excel Your email has been sent Formatting values to categorize them or get our attention is a common practice in ...

In my post on table formatting, I demonstrated how to transform your static data into a simple yet sexy database in a matter of seconds. If you don’t know how to use table formatting, go read that ...

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 ...

Styles are a Microsoft Word feature, right? You might be surprised to learn that Microsoft Excel uses styles too, although the nature of the data doesn’t require the same kind of robust options. Excel ...