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 ...

White space appears as empty area within an Excel 2003 cell and it can be created by text or formatting. Textual white space consists of manually entered extra spaces or lines within the cell. Excel ...

Conditional formatting tricks: Sum values in Excel by cell color Your email has been sent When you think VBA code is your only hope, try combing built-it conditional ...

The “Too many different cell formats” error occurs in Excel when the formatting in your spreadsheet exceeds the maximum number of formatting allowed. In Excel ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells. For example, ...

Have you ever spent hours perfecting your Excel spreadsheet, only to watch your carefully crafted formatting fall apart the moment you insert a new row? It’s a maddeningly common issue for Excel users ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link When you enter a date that's formatted with slashes, Excel will recognize it as a date. For example, Excel will automatically choose the date ...

Office Q&A: How to stop Excel’s paste task from overwriting destination cell’s format Your email has been sent It's not easy to fool Excel, but with a few extra clicks, you can work around this odd ...