Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to the format you prefer. For example, you ...

Whether you're an Excel newbie or a seasoned pro, avoiding these formatting habits will ultimately speed up your workflow and ensure your spreadsheet works as expected.

Tables can be really handy when trying to organize information in Excel or Google Sheets, but if you need to get rid of the formatting, here's how to do it.

Press "Ctrl-V" on your keyboard to paste your copied date into the selected cell. Excel automatically formats the date to the default date format set for the current spreadsheet.

What is conditional formatting in Excel? Conditional formatting lets you transform static Excel spreadsheets into dynamic canvases of information.

This month’s column walks you through all the special ways you can paste text, data, and even application capabilities in Excel.

A few colleagues were talking in a Slack team the other day about discovering “paste without formatting” and kicking themselves for only learning about it relatively recently. I confess ...

How to create conditional formatting rules in Excel Once the custom value formats exist, you can apply them using conditional formatting rules. Right now, the format is set to General.

Microsoft Excel can be very beneficial to our lives, but sometimes errors can occur, especially if you want to paste values on an Excel cell, workbook, or datasheet and you cannot paste data.

Excel for the web now supports conditional formatting, and the interface is easier to use than the desktop edition. Susan Harkins shows you how to use it.

Learn how to hide Paste Options button after pasting content in Excel using Excel settings, Registry or Group Policy Editor.

Use a text-only editor to paste, then copy the results. Many apps don’t support rich-text formatting. Pasting text into one of those apps strips all styles and fonts.