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Excel Insights
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Excel Insights

by MrExcel's Holy Macro! Books, 24 Excel MVPs
October 2024
Intermediate to advanced
289 pages
9h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Smart Uses of Custom Number Formatting

Number formatting is ideal for manipulating data in presentations without actually “touching” the source data. Most people normally use it to show numbers with a thousand separator or as percentage, or even to show green for positive and red for negative values, but they hardly go beyond that.

The Format Cells dialog box is shown. Number format allows for negative numbers to be formatted as red.

Common Number formatting options.

The image below shows how you can extend the usual number formatting options to create impressive reports. You can even use dynamic thresholds to control the formatting.

Custom number formatting to emphasize deviations.

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