How to Get Decimals to Line Up in Excel. If you're using Excel to calculate monetary values, then you only have to worry about two decimal places in your numbers. Aligning your numbers to the ...

We should point out that the ability to determine the number of decimal places shown on a spreadsheet is possible on all versions of Excel from the year 2007 to date.

The leading zero before a decimal point assists users in recognizing decimal numbers less than one. Without the leading zero a cursory look at a series of digits could easily overlook the small ...