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Excel has many formats for numbers. The can be displayed with decimal points or as percentages or in Scientific notation or in currency and in a few other formats. They can have comma separation, so you could have 1,000,000 instead of 1000000. You can also format negative numbers to be displayed with a minus sign or in red. You can also set up custom formats for your numbers.
The accounting format sets the figures into currency and sets their alignment in a standard way so that the currency symbol is always positioned in the same place as it is in all values. Currency format always puts the currency symbol right beside the numbers, so they are not always in the same position in relation to the other figures.
Accounting format align all the currency symbols at the left edge of the cell while Currency format align all the currency symbols them next to the number. Accounting shows a dash for zero value, Currency shows an actual zero. The actual difference is Currency has: #,##0.00_);(#,##0.00) Accounting has: _(* #,##0.00_);_(* (#,##0.00);_(* "-"??_);_(@_) ; SANJAY KISHORE
I do not understand the question, but if you are asking, how to put a dollar sign in a cell and have it always align to the left side of the cell, then you format the cell as accounting instead of currency.
Align is an attribute included in the HTML format. You can align the position to be right, left or center.
The setting that allows you to adjust the display of date, time, math separators, and currency symbols is typically found in the "Regional Settings" or "Language and Region" section of your operating system or application. Here, you can customize formats for dates, times, numbers, and currency according to your preferences or regional standards. This ensures that the displayed formats align with local conventions or personal preferences.
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Text will align to the left and numbers and dates align to the right.
Format the cell to align right.
The alignment group buttons only align horizontally. If you want to align vertically, select cell format and format the cell.
There are lots of data types in Excel. For example: Number, Text, Date, Time, Logical. You can take Number in a broad sense or you can think of numbers in terms different data types like Percentage, Scientific Notation, Currency and others.
Numbers are aligned to the right, unless you apply other formatting.