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Formatting Numbers as Percentages in Excel Is Frustrating—But Here's an Easy Fix

When you apply Microsoft Excel's percentage number format to a cell already containing a number, it multiplies the value by 100. This can be frustrating, as there's apparently no easy way to stop this ...
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The Secret to Perfect Excel Formatting Every Time

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 ...
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The status bar at the bottom of Excel is more powerful than people think

Most Excel users spend their time navigating ribbons, building formulas, and formatting cells, all while completely ignoring ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
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Microsoft Excel’s Latest AI Trick : Say Goodbye to Manual Data Entry

Have you ever spent countless hours wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to convert “one thousand two hundred” into “1,200” or vice versa? For years, this task has frustrated professionals across ...