Don't listen to anyone who tells you that the VALUE function in Microsoft Excel is obsolete. You'll probably seldom need to use it on its own, but when combined with other functions, it's still as ...

Product IDs, serial numbers and other reference numbers require a unique identifier to avoid confusion when referencing a product or specific data point. Although you can manually enter unique numbers ...

Excel displays the original number up to 11 digits. When you enter a number that has more than 11 digits, Excel does not display the original value. Instead, it displays the number in the exponential ...

Isolating values in an Excel 2007/2010 worksheet or workbook is common in both error-checking and data analysis tasks. While appropriate even for a small worksheet, the functions that isolate a value ...

All the cells of negative numbers will become red, while the positive numbers will remain the same. You can create your own custom format in Excel to highlight negative numbers. Select the range of ...

2 ways to display negative numbers in red in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent To enter a negative value into a Microsoft Excel sheet, precede the value with a hyphen character, (-), which ...

How to generate random numbers with no duplicates in Excel Your email has been sent Over the last few months, I’ve written about several of Excel’s new dynamic array functions. They’re powerful and ...

Random number generation is an essential feature in Excel, allowing users to perform tasks such as simulations, creating test datasets, or experimenting with spreadsheet models. Excel provides three ...

You can subtract in Excel by placing a minus sign in front of any numbers you want to deduct. You can add and subtract a bunch of numbers at once using the equal sign or SUM function. You can add and ...

You can divide in Excel using a few different methods. It's easy to divide two numbers or cell values in Excel using the forward slash in a simple formula. You can also divide a column of values by a ...