Sample Custom Number Formats
Format Code | Description | Data with General Format | Data with Custom Number Format
00000 | Always displays 5 digits. Pads with leading | 983 | 00983
| zeros if the number contains fewer than 5 digits. | 23589 | 23589
| This custom format is very useful when you | 9856 | 09856
| work with zip codes. | 85632 | 85632
0;-0;;@ | Suppresses zeros in cells. | 98 | 98
| This format displays positive values (0) and | 0 |
| negative values (-0), hides zero values, and | -9 | -9
| displays text (@). | 0 |
|  | hello | hello
;;;@ | Suppresses numbers in cells. | 98 |
| This format hides positive, negative, and zero | 0 |
| values, and displays only text (@). | -9 |
|  | 0 |
|  | hello | hello
[Black]General | Suppresses errors in cells. | 0.333333333 | 0.333333333
| This format hides or displays positive, | #DIV/0! | #DIV/0!
(the cells are also formatted | negative, zero, and text values as black | #N/A | #N/A
with a blue font) | characters in the General format. | 1.666666667 | 1.666666667
| The text is formatted with a blue font | 0.5 | 0.5
| so that errors do not appear. The other |  |
| values appear because the number format |  |
| color overrides the font color for the cell. |  |
#.??? | Lines numbers up with the decimal. | 3.256 | 3.256
| The ? code leaves a space for | 5.2 | 5.2
| insignificant zeros but does not | 9.652 | 9.652
| display them. | 98.2568 | 98.257
#, | Displays numbers in thousands. | 4058.34 | 4
| The comma is the thousands | 52865 | 53
| placeholder. If you wish to display | 236 |
| the numbers in millions, use the | 5502235623 | 5502236
| format #,, instead. | 999555 | 1000
#,###,, "M" | Displays numbers in millions. | 32654236 | 33 M
| The comma is the thousands | 4563258963 | 4,563 M
| placeholder. The letter "M" is displayed | 1.2357E+12 | 1,235,699 M
| after each number. | 22333666 | 22 M
|  | 12345678 | 12 M
0.00,, | Represents numbers in millions. | 1000000 | 1.00
| This number format displays numbers | 12000000 | 12.00
| so that 1 represents one million. | 12200000 | 12.20
|  | 120000 | 0.12
0;[Red]"Error!";0;[Red]"Error!" | Displays "Error!" in red for negative numbers | 10 | 10
| and text. | hello | Error!
| This format may be useful to alert users | -10 | Error!
| that they entered invalid text in a cell. | 0 | 0
0.0° | Displays numbers with the degree symbol. | 32.63 | 32.6°
| The degree symbol uses the character | 63.258 | 63.3°
| map code ALT+0176. | 96.75 | 96.8°
|  | -5.36 | -5.4°
0.00 £ | Displays numbers with the British pounds | 100 | 100.00 £
| symbol. | 67.63 | 67.63 £
| The pound symbol uses the character | 0 | 0.00 £
| map code ALT+0163. | 9.63 | 9.63 £
0.0_-;0.0- | Displays the negative sign on the right side | -5 | 5.0-
| of the number. | -40.3 | 40.3-
| This format also pads space at the right | 50 | 50.0
| of a postive number so that the decimals line up. | -10.99 | 11.0-
@ | Displays 5 spaces and then the text to | this | this
| give the appearance of a tab (or indent). | is | is
(5 spaces, then @) |  | a | a
|  | test | test
@*- | Shows text leaders. | Apples | Apples ---------------------------
| In a number format, the asterisk (*) | Oranges | Oranges -------------------------
| causes Microsoft Excel to repeat the next | Bananas | Bananas ------------------------
| character until the width of the column | Pears | Pears -----------------------------
| is filled. Text leaders are commonly used in | Peaches | Peaches ------------------------
| tables of contents. | Plums | Plums ----------------------------
|  | Grapes | Grapes ---------------------------
0 "dollars and" .00 "cents" | Displays a currency value with words. | 20.36 | 20 dollars and .36 cents
| This format displays the whole number | 2.55 | 2 dollars and .55 cents
| portion of the number followed by the | 45.36 | 45 dollars and .36 cents
| words "dollars and," followed by the fractional | 69 | 69 dollars and .00 cents
| portion of the number and the word "cents." | 36.25 | 36 dollars and .25 cents
|  | 1003.33 | 1003 dollars and .33 cents
0"."00 | Displays a value in hundreds. | 2300 | 23.00
| The comma is used only for scaling | 23 | 0.23
| numbers in multiples of one thousand. Use | 400 | 4.00
| a number format with a decimal character | 5000 | 50.00
| between the placeholders to display a | -90 | -0.90
| number as a multiple of 100 or 10 (0"."0). | 0 | 0.00

This table was produced from the example Excel file available at http://support.microsoft.com/support/Excel/Content/Formats/default.asp