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ExcelTips: Custom Formats
ExcelTips: Custom Formats
includes over 50 information-packed pages that will help you discover and master the custom formatting capabilities of Excel.
The following is the Table of Contents:
Introduction
- A Word about Versions
- Need More Tips?
- Sharing this E-Book
Custom Formatting Basics
- Understanding Custom Formatting
- Understanding Number Formatting Codes
- Understanding Date and Time Formatting Codes
- Understanding Color and Conditional Formatting Codes
- Adding a Custom Format to those Offered by Excel
- Saving Custom Formats
- Creating Two-Line Custom Formats
Numeric Formatting
- Displaying Negative Percentages in Red
- Altering the Displayed Format of Numbers to the Nearest 100
- Formatting Currency
- Notation for Thousands and Millions
- Incrementing Numeric Portions of Serial Numbers
- Numbers in Base 12
Date and Time Formatting
- Unique Date Displays
- Entering Dates Without Separators
- Entering Large Time Values
- Macro for Month Name
- Using an Input Mask
Formatting Techniques and Ideas
- Easy Value Hiding
- Hiding Individual Cells
- Using a Custom Format to Add Dashes
- Partially Blocking Social Security Numbers
- Superscripts in Custom Formats
- Engineering Calculations
- Inserting a Radical Symbol
- Adjusting Cell Margins for More White Space
- Labeling X-Y Scatter Plots
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