Excel's Format Chart Pane, with the first drop-down menu expanded and highlighted. The legend in an Excel chart is selected, and the Format Legend options are displayed in the Format Chart Pane.

An Excel sheet titled Charity Raffle Draw, with some monetary values in the Currency format center-aligned in their cells. An Excel sheet containing 0 in three currencies, formatted with the ...

Excel offers several built-in conditional formatting rules you can apply to your data. (Click image to enlarge it.) We’ll demonstrate using Excel for Windows under a Microsoft 365 subscription.

The article, Use a custom format in Excel to display easier to read millions uses a custom format to make large values more readable. For instance, 1,200,000 displays as 1.2 M instead—the format ...

How to copy formatting to rows and columns without Format Painter Alternatively, here’s how to copy formatting to an entire row or column without using Format Painter.

To format numbers in Thousands, Millions, or Billions in Excel, follow these steps: Open the Excel spreadsheet and select cells. Right-click on the selected cell and choose the Format Cells option.

Use Excel's formatting options to highlight negative results and make positive values readily visible. Select the range of cells you want to format. To select an entire row or column, ...

To clear formatting from the selected cells in your workbook in Microsoft Excel, you can use Clear Formats, Keyboard shortcuts, Format Painter tool, etc.

Change the time formatting. Data tables that use the "h:m" time format will not export correctly to Excel. Click the column heading to select the entire column.

Formatting using color is such a basic function of Excel that if, after all of the above, you still find that the color options aren’t working, I can only conclude that there must be something ...

Excel prompts you in a Remove Duplicates dialog to choose which columns you want to use for this deduping process. This is especially handy if you merge different data sources together into one file.