When you type a seven-or-ten-digit phone number into an Excel cell that uses the phone number format, Excel will automatically change the way the number looks so that it appears as a phone number ...

Built-in Smart Formats Now let’s move to the situation where you want to include phone numbers in a worksheet. In the U.S. that means you will be entering a nine-digit number into a cell. This is a ...

If the Excel cell format is not changing to a number because the Number formatting is not working, take these steps to fix the issue.

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