There's a lot to love about Apple products, but since much of the working world runs on Windows, it can be frustrating trying to transfer files from one platform to the next. In fact, because you'll ...

Decimal notation describes numbers using the digits 1 through 10. Binary notation describes them using just two digits, 1 and 0, where each bit in a string represents a power of 2. The right-most bit ...

You can follow any one of these methods below to convert numbers stored as text to numbers in Microsoft Excel: Using the Text to column button Using Value function Changing the format Use Paste ...

Trying to use an Excel Date and Time function, but Excel returns a serial number instead of date; this is because Excel stores dates and times in serial numbers in the backend; for instance, when you ...

Have you ever spent countless hours wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to convert “one thousand two hundred” into “1,200” or vice versa? For years, this task has frustrated professionals across ...

Spreadsheets created in Apple Numbers can be wondrous things, but opening them in Excel on a Windows PC is something of a headache. It can be done, though, with a little help from iCloud. In this ...

Type an apostrophe before entering or pasting two numbers separated by a hyphen in Microsoft Excel to keep the numbers from being converted to their month and date equivalent. Dennis O'Reilly Former ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new setting in Excel gives users control over the automatic data conversion feature that forced scientists to ...