

We can represent our date in any of the formats from the available formats. You can choose the location from the “Locale” drop-down menu.Ĭhoose the date format under the “Type” menu. Right-click and select “Format Cells” as to how we did before for “numbers”, then we will get the window to select the required formats. We see the short date format and long date format have multiple formats to represent our dates. The long date is used to represent our date in an expandable format like the below screenshot. When you want to represent your date in a short format, use the short date format. Below are the screenshots for reference.Ī date can represent in a short format and long format. The difference between currency and accounting is currency symbol alignment. In the drop-down, we have few currencies if you want the other currencies, click on the option “More Accounting formats”, which will display a pop-up menu as below.Ĭlick on the drop-down “Symbol” and choose the required currency format.Īs you all know, accounting numbers are all related to money hence whenever we convert any number to accounting format, it will add a currency symbol to that. We can change by clicking on the drop-down of “$” and choose your required currency. We have an option to choose the type of currency as per our requirement. Select the cell which you want to convert to Currency format and choose the “Currency” option from the drop-down.Ĭurrently, it is in Dollar currency. If you want further customizations to your number format, select the cell that you want to do customization and right-click the below menu will come.Ĭhoose the “Format Cells“ option then you will get the below window.Ĭhoose “Number” under the “Category” option then you will get the customizations for the Number format. Choose the number of decimals you want to display. Tick the checkbox “Use 1000 separator” for separation of 1000’s with a comma (,).Ĭhoose the negative number format whether you want to display with a negative symbol, brackets, red colour, nd red col, etc.Ĭurrency format helps to convert the data to a currency format. That is a difference between the General and Number format.

Now choose the format “Number” from the drop-down list and see how the appearance of cell A1 changes.
