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.

When you need to format text in multiple ways in a single cell in Microsoft Excel, then this guide shows you how to do it the easy way.

Open the Excel 2010 file that you want to make format changes to. Select the top-left cell in the range of cells that you want to change to the accounting format.

It's not easy to fool Excel, but with a few extra clicks, you can work around this odd pasting behavior. If you paste formatted values into a cell with another applied format, the pasted format wins.

Excel has a surprising limitation that you may not discover until you try to enter more than 15 digits in a cell. The application can only store numbers with15 digits of precision.

Combine an Excel custom format with data validation and remove the pressure for input perfection from personnel by letting Excel do the work.

The latest update to Excel for the web brings new options for cell colors, cell formatting, and tables. There's also a new printing experience on the way.