PSA: Please - for the love of all that is holy and measurable - get rid of decimals in chart axes. Since I’m not neurotic or a scientist, I very rarely use this option. But that’s what the next icons are for.Īdd decimals.
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If you don’t have decimals, you should ditch the decimals because they just add noise. (I usually use it for numbers greater than 999.) One weird quirk with this button is it adds two decimal places whenever you apply it. And if you have a number greater than 9999 you should use it. This is not a comma it’s a thousandths separator. You can also choose different currencies from the drop-down menu to the right of the currency icon. (If you want the currency symbol to be flushed up against the number, don’t use this icon use the Currency option in the drop-down menu above this row of icons.) Technically, this is referred to as Accounting formatting. This option will left-align the dollar symbol and right-align the number. These newbie mistakes are uncalled for because Excel placed several number formatting options front and center in the Number section of the Home tab:įor the neophytes, here are what those icons mean, from left to right:Ĭonvert to currency. But I can’t tell you how many times I see decimals in charts that should be formatted as percentages or no thousandths separators (a pet peeve of mine) or two decimal places filled with 0’s because the number didn’t need decimals. You would think everyone would use number formatting it’s so rudimentary. Don’t ask me why Dropbox sticks it up there.
(Just click the Download button in the upper-right corner of your browser window. If you want to follow along, you can download the Excel file. Otherwise, your data will look like one of those housewives who goes to grocery store with curlers and a moo moo sporting red lipstick.Įnough chatter.
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If you don’t know how to use table formatting, go read that post and then come back. In my post on table formatting, I demonstrated how to transform your static data into a simple yet sexy database in a matter of seconds.
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