Examples of using Format code in English and their translations into Greek
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Colloquial
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Official
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Medicine
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Ecclesiastic
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Financial
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Official/political
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Computer
Format codes by category.
Number, date, and time format codes.
Number format codes- Excel for Mac.
Include the characters in the appropriate section of the format codes.
Number format codes- Excel for Mac.
Learn about custom number, date,and time format codes.
Notice the format codes within quotation marks.
You can use the Format Cells dialog to find the other available format codes.
The format code you want is now shown in the Type box.
Number, date, and time format codes- Office Support.
When you create custom number formats, you can specify up to four sections of format code.
Select the Custom option, The format code you want is now shown in the Type box.
The TEXT function lets you change the way a number appears by applying formatting to it with format codes.
Some date formats were showing parts of the format code in the cell rather than the date.
You can use number format codes to control the display of digits before and after the decimal place.
Some date formats cause the date value to show parts of the date format code rather than the date.
Under Type, you will see the format code for the date format you chose in the previous step.
Use this format to create a custom number format that is added to the list of number format codes.
In the Type box,modify the number format codes to create the exact format that you want.
To display numbers in scientific notation,use one of the exponent codes in the number format code- for example, E-, E+, e-, or e+.
In the Type box,you should see the format code matching the date or time format you selected in the step 3.
If a number has more digits to the left of the decimal point than there are placeholders in the format code, the extra digits are displayed in the cell.
Make sure that you paste the format code within quotes("format code"), otherwise Excel will throw an error message.
Then click Custom on the left from the Category section, and copy the format code, including the currency symbol.
Press Ctrl+C to copy the format code, then press Cancel to dismiss the Format Cells dialog.
To repeat a character in the number format so that the width of the number fills the column,precede the character with an asterisk(*) in the format code.
In the Type box,you should see the format code matching the date or time format you selected in the step 3.
Use the numerical character for zero(0)if you want to display non-significant zeros when a number might have fewer digits than have been specified in the format code.
To see the number format code for a built-in number format, click the Custom category, and look in the Type box.
This is where the TEXT function is invaluable,because it allows you to force Excel to format the values the way you want by using a format code, like"MM/DD/YY" for date format. .