Helen Bradley demonstrates Excel formatting tricks that will help you when things don't work as planned. Learn her methods now.

By placing a zero before the decimal, the number is more readily recognized as less than one. By configuring a custom number format you can tell Excel to remove leading zeros.

As well as using number formats to present data as dates, times, percentages, and currencies, you can build a more specific number format using custom number formatting.

Combine an Excel custom format with data validation and remove the pressure for input perfection from personnel by letting Excel do the work.

If you want a dollar sign to appear to the right of the number, you'll have to create your own custom number format.

How do I create and populate tables? And, once a table is created, how do we custom filter, format, and design those tables so they look professional in a report? We’ll show you how it’s done.