Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems

Date:2021-3-29 Author:Sandra

In our daily using Microsoft Excel, we can often encounter some knotty questions. This tutorial is a guide to tell you how to do it.

Q1:Why these 0 disappeared?

When you enter a string of numbers starting with 0 in the cell, you will find that all the zeros at the beginning are gone.

Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems

You can enter “’” single quotation mark in the cell, and then enter the data starting with 0. Or set the number format of the cell to “text”.

Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems

Q2: Why does the cell content become #####?

In fact, this is because the cell is too narrow and the data is not displayed completely. We only need to make the cell a little wider to restore normal display.

Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems

Q3: Why these numbers became into 1.23457E+14

Actually, when you enter more than 11 digits in the cell, the data becomes “1.23457E+11

You just need to select the data area that needs to be restored and right-click to choose Format Cells in the list.

Go to custom and type 0, then hit ok.

Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems
Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems
Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems

Q4: Why do I enter a formula in the cell but only display the formula, not the outcome I want?

Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems

This may be because we set the format of the cell to “text”. We can set the number format of the cell to “General”, then double-click to locate the cell and press Enter to calculate the formula.

Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems

Q5:Where is the Ribbon?

Sometimes, the Ribbon area and all the command buttons or even tabs are gone. How could you find out?

Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems

Just click the Ribbon display options button in the upper right corner, and select one which you need.

Q6: The blank cell filling formula shows the wrong value, is there any way to not display it?

Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems

If you encounter such a problem, you can use the IFERROR function. Enter =iferror( your formula),””)

Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems

Q7: Why do all the results of the formula I filled in show the same?

Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems

We can go to Formulas and click on the arrow of Calculation Options. Check the first choose “Automatic”

Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems
Excel 2016 Help: Solutions to 7 Common Problems
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