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While Excel offers many features and functions for working with times, you may want your times formatted as decimals instead. You might need them for use in other formulas, for a timesheet, or for your own preference.

You might run into the #VALUE! error when Excel cannot recognize your command. This can range from an error in the formula itself or the contents of the cells

You can add a strikethrough in Microsoft Excel using the software's Font Settings button or a keyboard shortcut.

Learn how to quickly calculate compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in Excel.

Conditional formatting is a terrific feature for automatically applying highlights or font formats to cells. If you have an Excel spreadsheet that contains dates, you can use this feature to make certain dates stand out and easy to spot.

If you use Microsoft Excel for accounting purposes, you might want to use the accounting number format for your numbers. There are multiple ways to apply this formatting, and we’ll show how.

Excel uses the same date format as your computer’s system settings. You may want to change the format of the dates, though, to make it more accessible for users in other regions, or to make your data more compact.