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Appendix B: Using Custom Number Formats 749
Formatting dates and times
When you enter a date into a cell, Excel formats the date using the system short date format.
You can change this format using the Windows Control Panel (Regional and Language options).
Excel provides many useful built-in date and time formats. Table B-9 shows some other custom
date and time formats that you may find useful. The first column of the table shows the date/
time serial number.
Table B-9: Useful Custom Date and Time Formats
Value Number Format Display
40363 mmmm d, yyyy (dddd) July 4, 2010 (Sunday)
40363 “It’s” dddd! It’s Sunday!
40363 dddd, mm/dd/yyyy Sunday, 07/04/2010
40363 “Month: “mmm Month: July
40363 General (m/d/yyyy) 40363 (7/4/2010)
0.345 h “Hours” 8 Hours
0.345 h:mm o’clock 8:16 o’clock
0.345 h:mm a/p”m” 8:16 am
0.78 h:mm a/p”.m.” 6:43 p.m.
See Chapter 6 for more information about Excel’s date and time serial number system.
Displaying text with numbers
The ability to display text with a value is one of the most useful benefits of using a custom number
format. To add text, just create the number format string as usual (or use a built-in number
format as a starting point) and put the text within quotation marks. The following number format
string, for example, displays a value with the text (US Dollars) added to the end:
#,##0.00 “(US Dollars)”
Here’s another example that displays text before the number:
“Average: “0.00