Using Excel's number format tool means you can ensure your spreadsheet both looks the part and handles your data exactly how you want it to.

Padding Numbers In the previous example you saw that we can format numbers and force then to display a fixed number of decimal places. The 0.00 part of the custom format makes this happen. For example ...

For the same reasons, values formatted with the Accounting number format are also right-aligned by default, though the currency symbol aligns to the left of the cell.

If the Excel cell format is not changing to a number because the Number formatting is not working, take these steps to fix the issue.