I have an input field where the user inputs a number "X.XXXXX"
I then copy that number using some VBA to another sheet when a button is pressed. The problem occurs when the number ends in 0 or multiple zeros. For example, take the number 5.46770. I have the cell formatted to display 5 decimal places. However, if the trailing number is a 0, Excel still considers the value to be 5.4677 unbeknownst to the user. So when my macro pull the value from the cell it takes 5.4677 vs. 5.46770. What I'm trying to figure out is how to have my VBA code pull the trailing 0(s). Any ideas?
The value of 5.4677 is the same as 5.46770; they are equal.
If you are trying to get a string that is formatted just like the cell, try:
cell.Text
Depending on what you are doing with the NUMBER, you could set the cell value with a single quote in front. It will force it to be shown like text, leading/trailing zeros or not. IE:
CELL2.VALUE = "'" & FORMATNUMBER(CELL1.VALUE,5)
Related
I'm using a userform to add numbers in my excel sheet.
When someone add 01234 in the userform, I only see 1234 in the excel cell.
So I modified the cell format, it worked but whenever i wanted to only add 1234 , excel would display a 0 so 01234 .
I just want to be able to add the textbox value as it is in excel sheets.
Thank you
EDIT:
This is a part of the code that takes the textbox value and enters in the requested cell :
Sheets("Sheet3").Range("B4").Select
ActiveCell.Value = UCase(TextBox2)
Since you say (in comments) that you don't mind if the resultant cell value is numeric or text, simply use
Worksheets("Sheet3").Range("B4").Value = "'" & UCase(TextBox2)
This will make all entries text. FWIW, that may become an issue for you later!
Prefix zero-prefixed entries with ' (single quote), no prefix for non-zero prefixed entries?
A
1'01234
2 1234
=A1+A2->2468 (OK)
I need to put data validation on a range of cells so that you can enter no more and no less than 9 characters in those cells. The problem is that SOMETIMES those 9 characters will be all number ... and that "number string" will start with a zero ... e.g. 012345678. Excel will remove the zero, as it recognizes that string as a number and my validation kicks in saying that I need to enter 9 characters into that field.
Any ideas?
Format the range of cells as Text. This will prevent Excel from trimming leading zeroes.
=TEXT(Cellwithnumber,"000000000")
Normally, if you format a range as text prior to typing in data (by right-clicking → format cells) or with something like
Dim c As Object
For Each c In Selection.Cells
c.NumberFormat = "#"
Next c
or
ActiveSheet.Cells.NumberFormat = "#"
Excel wont cut the leading zeroes.
If other users are using your sheet, you could protect the cell formats, so they don't accidentally change it back to numbers by, say, pasting data in with formats.
You could create a new cell and enter them as text formulas. Say the value you want to get the 0 from is in A1, enter your formula in a cell:
=TEXT(A1,"000000000")
That will show the leading 0.
If you want to use VBA:
rngTarget.NumberFormat = "#" ' rngTarget is a Range, can be e.g. ActiveCell or ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 2) or ActiveSheet.Range("B8")
There is a column of values that are moved from one Excel spreadsheet to another, in the same workbook, by a macro. The values should be five characters, only numbers, including leading zeros.
There are several ways that have successfully replaced the lost leading zeros from the auto formatting that Excel does. With a strange result.
For every cell that the macro has formatted the cells, the Find/Replace tool refuses to recognize any searches that include zeros.
Example:
Before Macro = 9093
After Macro = 09093
The Find/Replace window will find a search value of 9093 but will not find a search value of 09093. A Find/Replace window will find a positive hit after deleting the macro formatted 09093 and hand keying 09093 into the cell.
I have not tried code checking each value for the desired number of characters then concatenating leading zeros until the right number of characters has been reached. My hesitation stems from my assumption that a macro running this code will run very slow when having to go through 1000 or so rows.
Code blocks below are two attempts:
''Masks for a five character sequence.
' Corrects for leading zeros being dropped for Product Code column.
' Currently does not work.
Columns("F:F").Select
Selection.NumberFormat = "00000"
''Alternative method for keeping correct format of Product Code
' (with leading zeros) and searchable with Find window.
' Also not functioning.
Dim a
Dim l As Long
With Range("F2", "F" & lastUsedRow)
.NumberFormat = "#"
a = .Value
For l = 1 To UBound(a, 1)
a(l, 1) = Right("0000" & a(l, 1), 6)
Next l
.Value = a
End With
The actual value of the cell you are trying to find is 9093, even though it is shown as 09093 through formatting. The find/replace tool will look for a string value of 09093 while the actual value is 9093 and thus cannot find it. Presumably when you key in the 09093 it is formatted as text rather than a number to preserve the leading 0s.
If you don't actually use the numbers in the newly created column for analysis, might I suggest the line below. This way you can find the cell with the leading 0's from the Find/Replace dialog as the entire product number including the leading 0's are a string.
Selection.NumberFormat = "#" 'This formats the selected cell as text
I've pasted some numbers on Excel spreadsheet and wanted to do some calculations with it. The problem is that Excel isn't recognizing the numbers. I've already tried several methods to convert them into numbers and none of them works: paste/special multiplying by 1; formating each cell to the number/scientific number format. And there isn't also an error message on the top right corner of each cell like I've read on the internet indicating that there is a number written as text. If I retype each number, Excel recognizes it.
To make sure that the problem was really that the numbers were understood by Excel as text, I tried the functions ISNUMBER(), that returned FALSE and ISTEXT() that returned true.
I want to know how I can fix that problem without having to type into each cell.
Ps. the numbers are in scientific number format, i.e., 1,085859E+001
Since the column is text the cells are formatted as text.
you use Value to convert the text into a number so the formula will work
A2 = 123
A3 = 123 Richard
Formula
=isnumber(A2) result is false
use
=isnumber(value(A2)) result is True
I was having the same problem, until I realized that the decimal separator was set as (,) instead of (.) in the default settings. Once I changed that, everything worked fine.
If your "numbers" are being detected as text, you can use VALUE() to make sure Excel understands that it is actually a number.
A1: `1.23E+10 (this is a string)
B1: =VALUE(A1)
=12300000000
C1: 1.23E+10 (this is a number)
D1: =IF(B1==C1,"It worked", "Uh Oh")
=It Worked (for me anyway)
I'm not sure what the comma in your scientific number will do so might want to have the function replace them if there not required.
See Kenneth Hobs' answer here: http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/showthread.php?42119-Solved-Convert-exponential-format-to-a-number
Open your Excel File, Press Alt + f11 to open the VBA screen,
Go to Insert > Module, Copy and Paste Kenneth's code:
Sub Expo()
Dim cell As Range, s() As String, lng As Long, n As Integer
For Each cell In Selection
With cell
If Not VarType(.Value2) = vbString Then GoTo NextCell
s() = Split(cell.Value2, "E")
.Value2 = s(0) * 1 * (1 * 10 ^ s(1)) 'ePart(s(1))
.NumberFormat = "General"
.EntireColumn.AutoFit
End With
NextCell:
Next cell
End Sub
You can now run it as a macro to convert selected cells. Or if you want it as a function copy this code instead:
Function Expo(cell As Range)
Dim s() As String
With cell
If VarType(.Value2) = vbString Then
s() = Split(.Value2, "E")
Expo = s(0) * 1 * (1 * 10 ^ s(1)) 'ePart(s(1))
End If
End With
End Function
This way you can use it as a normal function in excel eg =Expo(A1)
As I mentioned in the comments above though, you will have already lost some degree of accuracy when the original number was converted to scientific notation. The best solution is to get the originating program to write the proper numbers into the text file if you can.
Open a new word document and try Pasting the web content in word first, the copy this content from the word document and paste special in excel, as text. This simple solution worked for me
Open a new blank Excel, then go to Data > From Text, this way you can import text and designate which format you want to convert to. On the Text Import Wizard page, select either Delimited or Fixed width (I am not sure how your original text file look like but generally it should be Delimited. On the next page, pick a Delimiter or enter one in Others. On step 3, you should see the data listed below and the data format on the upper left. Pick General for those columns that you believe should not be Text. This should fix your problem.
My case was stubborn, no response to Paste Special or CLEAN(). Finally resolved by copying the offending column of Excel data and pasting into new Notepad++ doc. This revealed a leading "?" in all the bad numbers (apparently some non-printing character). Used Search > Replace to find all "?" and replace with nothing. Edit > Select All, copy to a new Excel column, and voilà!
There may be hidden characters. Trailing/leading spaces may not visible and hence erroneously be neglected. If there is trailing/leading Space characters with numeric values, excel consider it as text.
Copy contents problematic cells to MS-Word [(Select problematic cells and copy them to MS-Word)] and check any hidden characters, Remove hidden characters with "find"/"replace" functionality.
I was having issues with numbers from PPT (e.g. ($3,000))pasted to excel. Tried multiple different ways to get the text to recognize including find replacing parens, commas, $ signs to blank and trying to format so excel could run formulas. The only option that worked was to paste to Word first then paste value to excel which worked without any additional formatting steps. Surprised I could not do it all within excel though. Maybe there's another way
Select all the cells to convert to a number.
|Data| Menu Tab > Data Tools > [Text to columns]
Delimited. [Next]
Deselect all "Delimiters". [Next]
"Column data format" > General
[Finish]
Verify by using =ISNUMBER(C16) in an spare cell, where C16 is a sample cell. Should now return TRUE.
This happened to me lately. I had forgotten that I had set formula recalculation to manual. The weird thing is that it was returing FALSE when initially created (which was correct) but given the test depended on the value of other cells that, when changed, did not trigger the change in the cell with the isnumber() formula.
Pressing F9 "fixed" my problem (and my ignorance).
I have (what seems like it should be) a simple problem. I need to be able to tell excel (in vba) that a cell's contents are numeric, but I don't really want to apply any formatting to it. I need my trailing zeros left how they are. Am I missing something incredibly simple?
Update:
I'm getting xml data from a query and am placing it into the spreadsheets. But lets say one of the cells has 589.950000 I need to keep those additional zeros on display for the user (don't ask me why, they just want the precision) but excel converts it to 589.95. I also need for them to be able to do spreadsheet calculations on that cell (so I can't format it as text).
Update 2:
Further Clarification. Lets say I have 4 values that I'm going to place into a column
595.56000
15.00
90.00050
1919.120000000
is there one numeric format that I can apply to that column that will display those exact numbers?
You can't do this with one custom format.
What you can do is make a macro that does the input for you and modifies each cell format as it puts the value into it. You can use the Macro Recorder to get a handle on where to start with this.
I think you can do:
Val(Range("A1").Value)
Which will evalulate the text to a number
You mean you want to use the value of the cell as a numerical one but you don't want to change the real val of the cell ?
In vba, you can use CInt(yourvar) to convert a string to number. Thus, the value you get will sure be an integer.
[edit] Btw, if you want to display or set back the value to a cell with the format you want, you can use the Format ( expression, [ format ] ) function of Excel vba
[edit 2]
As you cannot predict how many zeros you will have, i can't see any number format that would work. You'd probably better use the Text format as Lance Robert suggested. To use formula on text cells, you can use the VALUE formula to convert the cell to use it as a number. If you need it on a range, you may have to use array formulas like this : {=SUM(IF(ISTEXT(A1:A4);VALUE(A1:A4);A1:A4))}.
Please let us know if you want some help on these formulas.
Regards,
Max
If you know the number of decimal places you need, you can use something like the following:
Range("A1").NumberFormat = "0.000000"
I suppose you could even get fancy and check the number of trailing 0s in the code and adjust the formatting as required.
UPDATE:
Here's a VBA function that takes the number as a string and returns the appropriate NumberFormat string.
Private Function trailing(strNum As String) As String
'From number entered as string, returns Excel Number format to preserve trailing zeroes in decimal.
Dim decpt As Integer
Dim aftdec As Integer
Dim strTmp As String
decpt = InStr(strNum, ".")
If decpt = 0 Then
strTmp = "0"
Else
aftdec = Len(strNum) - decpt
strTmp = "0."
If aftdec <> 0 Then
For i = 1 To aftdec
strTmp = strTmp & "0"
Next
End If
End If
trailing = strTmp
End Function
Can't believe I just stumbled on this...
I know it's old but might as well give very simple answer:
Custom format and simply use # symbol. Will be treated as integer and left exactly as typed in to cell.