How to Colour Number in Excel |

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Go to Home - Styles - Conditional Formatting - Highlight Cells Rules - Equal To. In Equal To dialog box put the number and assign the color that you want to it, then click OK. Do the same steps for each number.

Here is how to do this using custom formatting in Excel:
Select the cell or the range of cells for which you want to hide the cell content.
Open the Format Cells dialog box (keyboard shortcut Control + 1)
In the Number tab, click on the Custom.
Enter the following format in the Type field: ;;;

Number format codes
You can use number formats to change the appearance of numbers, including dates and times, without changing the actual number. The number format does not affect the cell value that Excel uses to perform calculations. The actual value is displayed in the formula bar.

Excel provides several built-in number formats. You can use these built-in formats as is, or you can use them as a basis for creating your own custom number formats. When you create custom number formats, you can specify up to four sections of format code. These sections of code define the formats for positive numbers, negative numbers, zero values, and text, in that order. The sections of code must be separated by semicolons (;).
The following example shows the four types of format code sections.
Four types of format code sections
Callout 1Format for positive numbers
Format for negative numbers
Callout 3 Format for zeros
Callout 4 Format for text
If you specify only one section of format code, the code in that section is used for all numbers. If you specify two sections of format code, the first section of code is used for positive numbers and zeros, and the second section of code is used for negative numbers. When you skip code sections in your number format, you must include a semicolon for each of the missing sections of code. You can use the ampersand (&) text operator to join, or concatenate, two values.
Create a custom format code
On the Home tab, click Number Format Format Number box, and then click More Number Formats.
In the Format Cells dialog box, in the Category box, click Custom.
In the Type list, select the number format that you want to customize.
The number format that you select appears in the Type box at the top of the list.

In the Type box, make the necessary changes to the selected number format.
custom number formatting trick in excel negative numbers
Select the range of cells where you want to show negative numbers in red. Open the Format Cells dialog box (keyboard shortcut Control + 1) In the Number tab, click on the Custom.
How to Make Negative Numbers Show Up in Red in Excel
We have 3 quick and easy ways for you today to have the negative numbers in your spreadsheets displayed in red. We’re using Conditional Formatting and a couple of options via the Format Cells dialog.
With a long display of numbers, it can quickly become confusing for your eyes to single out the negative numbers. The negative numbers could be representing expenses, debit or credit entries, or a negative difference between two amounts, and let's just say how significant that one little minus sign can be, financially speaking. Yes, these numbers are very important and that may be why you want them to show up a little more clearly than just with a hyphen as their prefix or parentheses as their enclosure.
This is what we have in today’s tutorial; highlighting negative numbers in red, leaving the positive figures as they are in the custom black. Now we’d like to crack into the methods of making negative numbers red in Excel.
Let’s get… reddening?
Using Conditional Formatting to Show Negative Numbers in Red
With Conditional Formatting, the format of cells can be changed based on the specified conditions, according to the value of the cells. We will make use of this feature to highlight negative numbers in red by setting the condition to highlight numbers less than zero in red text. The steps for using Conditional Formatting to highlight negative numbers in red are below: First, you need to select the cells with the numbers, both negative and positive.
In the Home tab, click on the Conditional Formatting button in the Styles. Select Highlight Cells Rules - Less Than… from the menu.
A window will pop up where you need to specify the formatting condition. Type “0” in the first field and select Red Text from the following list. You can also select a different format such as Light Red Fill with Dark Red Text. This option will also highlight the cell in light red color fill.
Click the OK button when done.
Now all the numbers less than “0” in the selected cells will be highlighted in red text:
Using Excel Number Formats to Display Negative Numbers in Red

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