I am trying to format a price that looks like this "193.250". I want to format it to "1.93250".
I've tried playing around with the format cells, but i can't seem to figure it out.
I don't think there's a custom format that will do that, but you could put this formula in a separate column
=A1/(10^(SEARCH(".",A1,1) - 2))
Of course, that will make 100.5 look like it has a greater value than 1000.5. The other option would just be to add a formula to divide by 100 and use the "Increase/Decrease Decimal" buttons to show the desired number of digits.
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How do I put a formula in a Custom Number Format in Excel? For example (random example for illustration purposes),
Assume I have the following data:
INPUT
OUTPUT
Without editing the actual data in the cells, I would like to display the value in the cell divided by 2, and with two decimal places:
Is there a way to do this directly in the Custom Number Format, i.e. Without adding helper columns/cells doing the division calculation. NB. the part that has me stumped is doing the division calculation in the Number Format
Thanks!
The answer is NO, if you want to do it through custom format in a cell directly.
However, there is workaround in pivot table using calculated field option as shown below:
By the way I am curious why you want to show the number in a value other than its true value in a cell? This is not a good practice which could lead to misuse of the data in my humble opinion.
I have been wanting to display my min/60 as minutes, but the decimal is necessary for calculations. The best way I've found so far is to use conditional formatting in fractions.
0/60 "min" would display. 21666666 as 13/60 min
Which is what the cell formula was. It's only useful for around an hours worth of time, but if I come up with something to more clearly display a calculation of such as 8.5hrs as 8hrs 30min I'll update.
When I try to concatenate a 2 cells, one of which contains a date, i'm getting a number with decimals. How to remove those decimals? From the below image, I want the output to look like Number:42952 but I get Number:42952.625. I don't see the decimals when I reference the cell though (see C2). How do I fix this?
try
=CONCATENATE(A1&INT(A2))
or replace INT with ROUNDUP if you want the next day
Hey guys I have a situation where I need to format a column to display APR(%) values in a certain way. Basically the values should be formatted like below:
Raw input Formatted value
========= ===============
0 0
0.0 0
4.4566 4.5
5.00 5
6 6
6.4 6.4
I tried creating this formula below but for some reason it doesn't round the number to 2 decimal places.
=INT(ROUND(A1,1)*100)/100
What am I doing wrong? Or is there a better way to handle this?
UPDATE: So I am applying the function to the same cell as the number is in. For instance the A1 cell contains 4.566 value and I applied the function to that same cell and this doesn't seem to be working for Excel. Any other ways to do this?
P.S: Im using the MS Excel for Mac
Two steps
Format the cells to Number with one decimal place
Conditionally format the cells to a Number Format of General if the value is an integer
EDIT: Since you cannot conditionally format the number format in Excel for MAC, there are several workarounds.
If you do not mind changing the actual value, add a column which you will use to display the result. Format the Column as "General", and use this formula (assuming your "real data" is in column A:
=IF(A1<>INT(A1),ROUND(A1,1),A1)
Other options that may work would include using an event-triggered macro (if that can be done in Excel for Mac); and possibly you can create the worksheet in Excel for Windows and the conditional format might be recognized in Excel for Mac, even if you can't create it there.
As explained in the documentation here,
Suppose that cell A1 contains 823.7825.
...
=ROUND(A1,2) ... equals 823.78
You should be able to therefore apply this to your entire column to get the precision that you are after.
Rather than using =INT(<another_cell_value>*100)/100 to derive the format you want, simply specify a custom format with the following:
#,###.##
This way, you only get the number of decimal places that you specified in the ROUND function.
I need to convert from 12 hour time to 24 hour time in excel.
I have it on this format:
11/13/2016 7:00:02 AM
I need it to be like this
11.13.2016 07:00:02
How could this be done? I have approximately 1000 cells that need to be converted.
Fully agree with Teylyn - however you may want to change the display and perhaps this is what you actually meant by "conversion". To adapt the display, let's we start with this:
Select the whole range you want to display differently and you can choose from the dropdown "More number format":
Then you can go to "Custom" on the list in the left & select something like this one:
Which gives this:
Or you can use the sample to make up a display of your own (you can edit the format line to yield anything you want).
Edit: if you like the answer, please accept it.
Dates and times are stored as numbers in Excel. How these numbers show in worksheet cells is governed by formatting. If your data contains real date/time values, you don't need to convert anything.
Use formatting to display values in a different time format in the worksheet cells. The date/time will show in the formula bar according to your computer's system settings for date/time display, but that's only in the formula bar.
Use the underlying values unchanged for calculations.
I need to convert lots of numbers that represent hours, into actual Excel values formatted like hours.
In e.g., I have a cell that has the value "16.30", and I need it to be "16:30".
I tried replacing the dot with two dots, formatting the cells with a custom format like "00:00" and "hh:mm", but nothing works. Excel returns an error or changes the value of the hour by converting the numeric value into an hour, as usual.
Any ideas about how to achieve the goal listed above?
TL;DR: how to change a cell with a value "16.30" into "16:30" as an hour?
Thanks in advance
One way to make your idea of substituting ":" for "." work is like this:
=TIMEVALUE(SUBSTITUTE(TEXT(A1,"0.00"),".",":"))
if A1 contains 16.3 and A2 contains the above and is formatted as time then it will display as time.
You can use this:
=TIME(INT(H6),(H6-INT(H6))*100,0)
Where H6 is your cell. Then format it as you want.