In the formula bar the data shows up as 69.849999999 and in the cell as 69.85. I am trying to get that number in the formula bar as 69.85. I tried Copy and Paste Values and almost everything else that I can think of. Even formatting the cell as a number with only two decimal places. Nothing is working.
Any ideas?
The following will radically change your data so use it with caution; possibly even on a backup copy until you are sure this is what you want.
If you have all of the numbers formatted the way you want (e.g. 0.00) then go into Excel Options (Alt+F,T). Choose Advanced from the list down the left and scroll the right pane down ¾ of the way to the When calculating this workbook section.
Click Set precision as displayed. Acknowledge the warning.
Remember to also click OK in the lower right to accept the option change and close Excel Options. All of the numeric values within your workbook will be rounded off to their displayed value of their number format. Note that numbers set to a General should not be affected.
Use at your own risk. I'm not saying this is a bad thing; just that you should be completely aware of the consequences before you commit large amounts of data to this option. See Change formula recalculation, iteration, or precision for more information.
Try:
=ROUND(A1,2)
then select, Copy, Paste Special, Values.
mrmcg,
=TEXT(A1,"0.00") is my preferred method here.
In hopes to be helpful it is a good idea to understand what you need to change to get the correct result. When you change the formatting (i.e. number, decimal, general) you are only changing the way the data appears, not the actual data.
You will need to use a formula like round, floor, text to change the actual data.
good luck and I hope that this is helpful!
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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.
I am trying to make a spreadsheet with a lot of data and with numerous (11) tabs with the same concept for different people, etc.
However, I do not want a cell to contain "0" if there is nothing to show. I have tried using =IF but I am 99.99% sure I am doing it wrong, which makes it not work... Ive attached a photo showing what I have. Simply I need the sum of cells B6:K6 in P6, and down the line, etc.
Also, since I have 11 tabs with roughly the same concept, I can certainly tell it is slowing down greatly. Any advice or would Google Sheets maybe be better suited?
Thank you!
A couple of methods:
=IF(SUM(B6,K6)=0,"",SUM(B6,K6))
Or you can use a custom format on the cells like:
0.00;-0.00;
The third spot after the second ; tells excel how to show 0. In this case it will show nothing.
You can either do something like =IF(A1+B1=0,"",A1+B1)
Or you can uncheck the Show a zero in cells that have zero value option under Display options for this worksheet.
I'll try and explain this as best as I can, it's a strange one so please bear with me. For the record I am using Excel 2010 (although I have seen this a couple of times before on previous versions also), and the model is fairly large (~30MB) containing around 20 sheets, and around 15 modules (although very well optimised and calculation times are non-existent).
I don't have the exact figures to hand, but for example in cells A1:A3 I have the values 823.50, -350.00, and -497.50 respectively. In cell B2, I am simply adding the values in column A by using =A1+A2+A3.
One would expect the result to show -24.00, but in fact shows something along the lines of 548.50.
Calculations are set to automatic
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Formatting is set to General
Manually stepping through the 'evaluate formula' dialog returns the correct result right up until the last step, which then gives the incorrect result
This can be fixed manually by entering into the cell, and coming back out again (effectively F2 then enter), after which the cell shows the correct result.
It is definitely not just a visual error, as the incorrect result gets fed into other calculations. I know the quick fix is to F2 and enter each cell, but it was only by chance this morning that the error was spotted, and could have easily resulted in a very large, false cost.
Edit
Forgot to mention that this affected ~50 cells this morning, not just the one
Has anyone had any experience with this issue? Is it a known issue, and therefore a known solution?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The only things I've noticed was to use '=Sum' instead of just '=', but have never been sure it actually functions differently.
also, from MS: If an argument is a cell range or reference, only numeric values in the reference or range can be added
This seems to be so simple of a request, but I was not able to find an answer. I have a numeric cell and it seems to round numbers. Can I ask excel to tell me formatting settings of a particular cell. For example if the number formatting is fraction up to one digit I would like to know that. It would also be nice to know what the other attributes are; like width, centering, and so on.
You can get some information using the cell function (doc), but it's not as useful as one hopes...
You need to use VBA for more details.
When numbers are stored as text in Excel you see this little guy http://imgur.com/zXdwD
in the upper-left hand corner. when you click on it it gives you the option of converting the text representation of a number to a number upon which math can be done. also, when stored as text numbers appear on the left side of the cell opposed to the right one. I have an array of numbers which are stored as text, but they don't offer that little green thing to convert them to numbers. It may sound trivial but I'm using the Vlookup function to reference a large column of numbers to a code name, but it's not being recognized. And the only thing I can think of is that it's somehow being read differently (the codes are most defintely in the lookup table, and ctrl+f will find them). I want to know if anyone has an idea about what's happening.
Thanks.
The smart tag is a little finicky at times. There's a couple of things you can do.
If you're using code, you can multiply the cells in the range by 1, this will convert them to a number.
Alternatively you can convert the number you're matching to a string and then vlookup. Something similar to:
=VLOOKUP(TEXT(A1,"#"),B1:D10,2,false)
Note TEXT(A1,"#") would round to no decimal places, you may have to adjust the formatting.
The format of some of the cells in the lookup table maybe formatted as text. If there are a lot of them you can create a macro that corrects them. I had the same issue in this SO question although it was the opposite problem.
Another way to correct them would be to copy all the cells in the lookup table in that column and in an adjacent blank column edit>paste special>values>add which makes each of them numeric. Then copy them and paste those back over the originating cells.
A quick trick to convert all numbers formatted as text back to umber format is to copy the data into the "Notepad" application. Then select and copy the data from "Notepad back into your spread sheet and everything will be converted to number format.