How to replace zeros with empty cells? Although this question seems simple, you may find yourself in a situation where you need something like this, and you will not have the right answer. When it comes to data in Pivot tables, it is logical to define this in the options. But they allow you to determine how to treat empty values, not zeros. Zero is not an empty value. You will find out how to replace zeros, regardless of the type of table, in the “recipe” that follows…
This is, I must admit, a very fun option and totally different from what you get used to when working with Excel. On the other hand, if you are not skilled in formatting the table framework, it can help you to draw the tables in which you will enter the data. This option has not always been in Excel, so I believe that many experienced users do not know that it exists. Below you will find out more about drawing the framework of the table.
When formatting the content of a cell, one of the items that we can set up is the way the content of the cell is displayed. Since the options for creating such formats are in the Number tab of the Format Cells dialog box, the settings to be addressed are often called “formatting the number”. Although the content of a cell does not have to be a number. It can also be text, date, time or other information. Have you ever wondered: how to create custom formats?
Excel styles are a useful way to define certain features of cell content formatting and give them a name, so that we can later use them more easily to format similar tables. For example, a style with the title “Header” can be used to format the headers of all the tables we make. Once saved style can be applied multiple times, and the subsequent change of style automatically changes and the formatting characteristics of all the cells in which the style is applied.
In everyday work, we often enter numbers, and then we format the way they are displayed within the cell. This is usually done by activating the Format Cells option, from the Home ribbon or by using the CTRL + 1 shortcut, and then choosing some of the cell content display options that are integrated into the Number tab. But since in practice we are dealing with just a few formats of a number record, it is much more useful to use shortcuts to quickly format content.