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 ...

This tutorial will show you how to change the number of Decimal places in Microsoft Excel using any one of these 3 methods.

By placing a zero before the decimal, the number is more readily recognized as less than one. By configuring a custom number format you can tell Excel to remove leading zeros.