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 right automatically lines up the decimal points ...

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 ...

Write the numbers in a vertical list, lining up the decimal points. If the numbers have a different amount of digits, there may be some gaps in the columns. Fill in any gaps with a zero so that each ...