How to Change to Accounting Format in Excel. The accounting format in Microsoft Excel 2010 is very similar to the currency format---both display the currency symbol next to every number.

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 ...

To rectify this issue, first try widening the column, and if this doesn't work, change the cell's number format to match the type of data it contains. Excel's 12 Number Format Options and How They ...