Align Decimals In Numbers With Variable Decimal Places In MS Excel
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If you have a spreadsheet that has variable decimal places and need to align them in a column on the decimal point regardless of the number of digits before and after the decimal, here's how:
Decimals not aligned:
Select your rows that you want to be aligned, right click and choose "Format Cells", go to the "Number" tab and choose "Custom", in the "Type" put in a ? to the right of the decimal point for the maximum number of decimal places you'll need. In my example it's three (.123, .888), hit OK, all your decimals will be aligned 
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Oh very nice, I hate spending hours trying to figure things like this out. Love the tips, keep them coming!!!
Thanks, useful tip.
Is there any way to do this without losing the leading 0 of, say, 0.123?
This trick does not function in windows office 2010
0.0?? Will give you a leading and a trailing number (so will give you 0.75, but also 37.0).
I format my cells with: $??#,##0.00 or some combination of #s and ?s to get the decimals to align.
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great stuff missb, i have spent so much time messing around with this and could never figure it out