Lets say you have a series of numbers and you want to write a message including those numbers.

What is the text number format in excel. This numeric data can include things like dates times costs percentages and anything else expressed as a number. Number formats are used to control the display of cell values that contain numeric data. Editing a built-in format does not remove the format.

Create a custom format code On the Home tab click Number Format and then click More Number Formats. On the Home tab in the Number group choose General or Number from the Number Format drop-down list. Theres a difference how Excel deal with text and numbers.

Press Ctrl 1 shortcut. For example in the accounting format with the dollar sign. How to verify the number format.

On the Home tab in the Number group click the arrow next to the Number Format box and then click General. Notice that if you would like to treat numbers as text strings with the General format you can add the prefix that is. Final thoughts and further reading.

The most important thing to understand about number formats is that they only affect how a number looksthey have no effect on the actual value stored by Excel. Supply format_text as a text string enclosed in double quotes. How to Use the TEXT Function in Excel.

Range C6D7 tells that format. Using the TEXT function you can apply the needed formatting on the fly. However Excel actually replaces the text-based contents of the cell with a numerical equivalent.