Question

To align currency symbols and decimal points in a column of numbers, you can apply the ____ number format.

Answer 1

Answer:

Accounting.

Explanation:

In Microsoft Excel, to align currency symbols and decimal points in a column of numbers, you can apply the accounting number format.

When an individual (accountants or financial experts) wishes to display numbers as a monetary value, he or she is required to format the numbers as currency. The procedure for achieving this, is to apply an accounting number format to the required or necessary cells to be formatted.

In order to access the number formatting options, users should navigate to the Home tab which is found in the Number group on the Microsoft excel software application.

Also, worthy of mention is the fact that the accounting number format can be used to display negative numbers in parentheses and zeros as dashes.