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Q: Excel won't allow me to input fractions; I keep getting a date. What's happening? A: If you do not apply a fraction format to a cell before you enter a fraction into it, Excel will convert the ...

Left to its own devices, Excel will convert your fractions into dates as soon as you enter them in your spreadsheet. See how you can work around this problem. If you don’t apply a fraction format to a ...

The cells in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet can hold various types of numerical data, including fractions and percentages. If some or all of your cells contain fractions, Excel enables you to convert ...

Fractions AND spreadsheets?!? I know, pretty exciting stuff. However, it can be tricky for novice spreadsheet creators to figure out how to display fractions in Excel. Microsoft Education has a quick ...

Excel percentage formulas can get you through problems large and small every day—from determining sales tax (and tips) to calculating increases and decreases. We’ll walk through several examples below ...

I need to load data from an excel worksheet to a T-SQL database. The columns and data do not follow a predefined format (for example on one spread sheet a column could be all text and on another that ...