00:00so in Microsoft Excel you can go ahead and display out numbers in different ways for example I'm
00:10going to go around and add in some number right here just like this random numbers and you can
00:15see that the display for it is quite straightforward but let's say I want to go ahead how that actually
00:20displays so for that I'm going to go around over here onto general and let's select number once
00:26you do that you can see that decimal points are added in and you can go ahead and decrease or
00:31increase up the decimal points right here just like this as well apart from that you can also go
00:36ahead and then expand this and here you can see the number format right here which allows you to go
00:41ahead and add in commas does display that as percentage or even currency values right here
00:48but let's focus on the number itself so to do that I'm going to go around over here the drop down
00:53menu and click on more number format so here you can see that number option is here so you can go
00:58ahead and choose decimal places and choose the number format from over here we can display it out
01:03as negative number use the uh thousand separator right here you can even go ahead and choose these
01:10out as you can see so let's choose this one inside bracket press ok right here and this is where you
01:16have so let me just go around over here onto more number formats you can go ahead and choose this
01:21number format as you want or you can go ahead and choose the negative number format that you have
01:26as well so if I were to go around add a negative number format that is what you have as you can see
01:31right here and so forth right here so you can go ahead and choose the number format as you wish and
01:36just like that the color and display settings for the number formatting changes out so that is how you
01:42can go ahead and format out numbers inside of microsoft excel so if you found this video useful be sure to hit the
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