Indian style number formatting works with Lakhs and Crores.
A Lakh is "100,000" in US Style, but would be "1,00,000" in Indian Style.
A Crore is "10,000,000" in US Style, but would be "1,00,00,000".
I have not been able to figure out the custom number formatting syntax sufficiently to be able to do the following:
Accounting Style currency is left justified
Negative numbers in red
number formatting described above
How can I do this?
I don't think it will change anything in this case, but I am on Excel for Mac (Office 365 Version).
This is what I found in Quora:
Select the cell
Press ctrl + 1
Numbers > User Defined
Write this:
[>=10000000]##\,##\,##\,##0;[>=100000] ##\,##\,##0;##,##0
or
[>=10000000]"RS "##\,##\,##\,##0;[>=100000]"RS " ##\,##\,##0;"RS "##,##0
I couldn't see a way of adding the second part of the question (negative numbers in red) without adding a couple of conditional formatting rules:
Format values where the formula is true
=A1<=-100000
With number format
[<=-10000000]##\,##\,##\,##0;[<=-100000] ##\,##\,##0;0
( or just
[<=-10000000]##\,##\,##\,##0;##\,##\,##0
since you already know it's <=-100000)
and
Format values where the formula is true
=A1<0
With number format
##,###;##,###;##,###
and also set font to red in both cases.
The issue was that the first format always displays minus signs for negative numbers > -100000. If you didn't mind the minus signs appearing as well as the red font, you could use
[<=-10000000]-##\,##\,##\,##0;[<=-100000]-##\,##\,##0;-##,###
for all of them.
BTW I'm testing this on Excel 2010 so 365 may be slightly different.
Related
I'm trying to highlight the time based on the folowing rules
If the time is lower than 7:30 be closer to red
Otherwise if the time is closer to 8:05 get close to green
In this sheet:
I guess it's easier to explain with the following illustration:
You should get the basic idea of what I'm trying to accomplish with the formulars in the formatting rule picture. That one however doesn't work.
Any ideas what would be the proper way to format this rule?
On the left side for value write 0,31 and on the right side write 0,34.
To get the correct value, that is corresponding to the correct time, simply select the time in Excel, using the Time() formula, press Ctrl+1 and select Number. You will see the correct number for the time.
Also found a way, albeit this is more of a workaround:
You can enter the values as a raw number in format of AB:CD:EF (or depending on the time format you are using) and excel will automatically format the rule somehow with decimal signs, although this really is more of a workaround rather than answer to the actual question
You can use "industrial minutes", minutes to a base of 100 industrialseconds. Then you can use standard decimal values.
In excel you simple multiply time values by 24 to get to that. Then 30 minutes are 0.5 of an hour.
For the conditional formating use a 3-Color scale and set the middlepoint to number 7.5 and a lighter green.
I am moving to Open office spreadsheets and I need to handle large financial values in spread sheet cell.
By default libre office provide NUMBER & CURRENCY format, where "," is used as per Indian Numbering system(refer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system )
However, I don't need the number till one's unit place. I need to see number in crore.
26,75,73,350 should be shown as 25.76
Libre office only provide "," as thousand separator. This separator follow US counting system, i.e. millons etc. If used as user-defined format "0.00,,"
I see cell value as 267.57 and not 26.76
What is a good user-defined format following Indian counting system?
I am not sure but try this, N4 contains the value 12345678
=ROUNDUP(N4/("1" &REPT(0,LEN(N4)-2)),2)
Result 12.35
You can changethe bold section with a fixed value 10000 or so
With a formula it would just be a matter of dividing by 10000000 (ten million) and showing decimal places to suit. Unfortunately Open Office Calc (like most other popular spreadsheet programs) does not provide such a format by default. However in a custom format , effectively divides by 1000 (one thousand) and % multiplies by 100 (one hundred) so 267573350 with a User-defined format of:
0.00,,,%
looks like 26.76%. The underlying value is however retained, so for example adding 1 to such a cell (in a different cell of general format) would show 267573351.
That is about as close as I can get just with formatting, but since % (ab)used this way is so open to confusion you might want to give some visual warning by say appending "C" to the format (0.00,,,%"C") to show:
26.76%C
I am copying large tables from a website to Excel and it is copied in a wrong format. The number which I need seems to be in a cell but when I click into the cell it shows me that it is a date (and the number shown in the cell is its month and year).
Is it possible to change that so that the number in the cell will be 4.25 instead of 1.4.2025?
Thanks a lot.
You can change the format by highlighting the cells, right clicking selecting the format cells option. It will not change the string of numbers from 1.4.2025, but you will be able to replace the date format with something more appropriate for your needs. *
In the 1900 date system, 1.12 and 12.15 (for example) if entered as 1/12 and 12/15 respectively (where the locale has . as the decimal separator) into cells formatted General will show 01-Dec and Dec-15 respectively. The underlying number however (ie change format from Custom to Number) is 42339 for both. 42339 in Short Date format shows as 01/12/2015.
Although generally possible to deduce what malformed number gave rise to what looks like a date it is not always possible to do so. Ambiguity is greatest where the digits for the decimal or integer parts are less than 13. In addition, the locale in which the numbers were entered may play a part (since, in the 1900 date system, 3/4 for example would be interpreted as 42097 where the date convention is DMY 'UK' and 42067 where the date convention is MDY 'US').
So the answer to your question:
Is it possible to change that so that the number in the cell will be 4.25 instead of 1.4.2025?
is "Yes, but not fully reliably" (and even so would require knowledge or guessing of locale, date system and time of the conversion). Since you are "copying large tables from a website to Excel" it seem you retain access to the source data and I would recommend returning to that. On a small scale manual adjustments may be viable, on a large scale consider importing first to software without such automatic interpretation (eg Word, NotePad++) or, if possible, as character separated values imported as text. Address the delimiters with string handling there and only after that import to Excel or save in Excel format.
I'm working with large numbers here, so I want to save space in each cell by displaying
$1,782,543 as $1.78M
I'm formatting the cell using the following custom formatter:
$#.0,," M";
It seems to be working, except when the number is negative. Then it displays nothing. Any idea what could be causing this?
Perhaps there is a better way to do this.
What comes after the semi-colonis the format applied to negative values, as you have nothing after the semi-colon negative values are blank......so just leave out the semi-colon and the same format is applied to all values, positive negative or zero (but with "-" sign for negative numbers), i.e. use just
$#.0,," M"
The format for a custom number format is <positive number>;<negative number>;<zero>;<text>.
If you add some format masks for the other possible number variations you should be fine. Example:
$#.0,," M"_);[Red]($#.0,," M");[color14]_(* "-"??_);[color5]_(#_)
The above will supply your desired format in black digits, negative numbers in the same number format but bracketed and colored red; grey hyphen in place of zeroes and blue text.
Try this format:
$#.0,," M";-$#.0,," M";$#.0,," M";
(Not sure if this is the best stack for this question).
What is the format to have 14500 read as $14.5K but to have 3000 read as just $3K without the trailing decimal point?
I can't seem to comprehend the correct expression from the manual.
Excel does not appear to support this functionality using custom format codes. However, there is a way to simulate this. Create a new column that uses the function ="$"&A1/1000&"K".
Original ="$"&A1/1000&"K"
$3,500 $3.5K
$3,000 $3K
$14,500 $14.5K
$13,300 $13.3K
$25,000 $25K
$250,000 $250K
To get this to work, I formatted the cell's of the data column 4
4
4
4
3.5
13.5, by either selecting the column and then right click and format cells or by right clicking on the chart and selecting format data labels.
I formatted this with the regular expression $#K so that the data then shows as
$4K
$4K
$4K
$4K
$4K
$14K. The consequence is that the number is rounded to not include the decimal.
Now, all i needed to do was separately format the individual cell's that had decimal values by right clicking on the individual cell's and changing their format to #.0K.
Thus we now have, $4K
$4K
$4K
$4K
$3.5K
$13.5K
Also, the , can be used in the regex ($#,K for round numbers, $#.0,K for decimal) for data of thousands, like my original question.
This was an acceptable solution for me because there were only two such fractional data points.
For a larger dataset, you will need to use a conditional expression to determine all the cell's that have decimal values.
One way to do this, is like so:
If your numbers are in column B, apply this formula for column C
=B1=INT(B1)
This will show TRUE if the data is of INT data type (no decimal precision) and FALSE if not.
Now, select column C and select Data\Filter\Autofilter
From the drop-down list in C1, select FALSE
This will show only the decimal numbers and hide the whole numbers.
And now you can apply the relevent formatting as described above.