I have columns of geological data in number form which may have about 4 or 5 decimal points. I want to reduce them to 2 decimal points without rounding the numbers up. Is there a simple way to do this?
View 4 RepliesI was trying to decrease the decimal places of the data figures that I'm currently working on my report, however, it keeps rounding-up the decimal numbers. I wish to keep the original numbers and just decrease the decimal places.
For example:
The original figure is = 7260.12903225806
Upon decreasing the decimal figures to just 2, the result became = 7260.13
Is it possible for me to just have this result = 7260.12 instead of 7260.13?
I've tried using the TRUNC formula butit does not work if the 2nd decimal value is 0.
For example:
The original figure is = 227161.905808985
Upon applying the formula, the result became = 227161.9 instead of 227161.90
I've got a wierd simple problem in Excel 2003. I have a laptop and a desktop machine, and I'm an accountant who uses the fixed decimal feature as a default, with it set to 2 decimal places.
On the desktop machine, if I input "23." into a cell and then hit enter, the value left in the cell is "23.00" However, on the laptop, when I do the same thing, I get "0.23" In essence, it ignores the fact that I entered a decimal point.
If I enter "23.0" in a sheet on the laptop, it puts "23.00" in the cell.
I thought maybe it was some sort of hardware thing, like the KB was messed up, but then I used remote desktop to try to see what would happen if I enter numbers into the other computer using the laptop, and into the laptop using the desktop. The laptop when connected to the desktop performed normally, just like the desktop machine. The desktop, when connected remotely to the laptop behved like the laptop machine. In other words, I believe this test takes Hardware out of the picture.
Which leaves some strange obsure setting in excel someplace tht is causing this behavior, and I can't seem to find it.
Does anyone here know why these two installs treat the data entry so differently? It's driving me nuts.
My worksheet has a column full of numbers that are suffixed with "." and more numbers.
Example
Before After
135443.234 135443.23
456544.810 456544.81
435466.235 435466.24
654352.8 654352.80
I save my files as .txt. In the text files, the numbers appear preserved. But when they're opened in excel, they're rounded. If I format them as numbers with 3 decimals, the "#.8" becomes "#.800" which is no good. Oh, and the suffixes which end in a zero always end up losing the zero.
I've formatted my columns as general, number (with 3 decimals), and as text. That hasn't worked.
I've tried concatenating, separating the decimal from the suffix: =456544&"."&810
I've tried using the value formula to get get the cell value.
How do I write a formula to round the decimal places in a number in set increments. For example;
a) 14.28 to the nearest 0.25 would result 14.25
b) 1.99 to the nearest 0.1 would result 2.0
c)2.97 to the nearest 0.25 would result 3.00
I've tried to look for a solution on the forum, but nothing seems to come up. I've attached a file to help show what I'm trying to resolve.
Column A of the file shows an amount, when summed, give a total of -3.5725E-09.
Each of the figures in column A only has 2 decimal points and if I manually total up the numbers on a calculator it give me zero.
Does anyone know how I can get rid of the -3.5725E-09 without another formula? I need the balance to be zero.
My formula is not rounding properly. Cells I4, J4 and K4 all filter from the results of cell I3 divided by 3. (e.g. 10/3 = 3.333) I was able to remove the decimals in cells I1:K3, but the between formulas (I4:K4) keeps adding the decimal back, therefore this results in errors to my chart.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a few cells that contain decimals that do not appear as decimals. If the number is 50.1, it only shows up as 50 in the cell. I've tried formatting it to a number with 2 decimal places and to scientific and when I do that the number displays as ##. When I do general formatting it only appears as 50.
I used a formula to pull the number into a different cell, however, and in that cell it shows up as 50.1.
Is there anything I can do to make it show up as 50.1 in the original cell?
I am in need of a macro which would be capable of doing the following;
Replacing a sequence of number's & decimals such as 58.6073.1 with 58607310000
Essentially, the code will just need to remove the two decimal points & to suffix those 4 zeros onto the end of the number sequence.
I beleive it is because the formulas are not rounding the figures to the nearest 2 decimal points. so some costs are 1 or 2 pence out. OK on a small qty not so good on a large qty.
I dont know how to do this as the roundup function only rounds up i need it to round to the neareast 2 decimal points. Also dont know how to integrate it into existing formulas and macros
Is there some kind of function that will remove decimal points from a number? What I'm looking for is:
1231.5 = 12315
123.15 = 12315
12.315 = 12315
1.2315 = 12315
I've read various "solutions" to my request but it's Greek to me. Simply stated I occasionally have to create worksheets that involve dollars and cents. My question is how can I get Excel to stop dropping the zero if its the last digit to the right of the decimal point? $42.30 becomes $42.3, etc.
I've looked through the preferences/options and can find nothing to rectify this. Any way to do this so that keeping the zero becomes the default for any tables, lists, etc that I create in the future?
I have tried, through control panel - region settings etc, to change the default number of decimals to 0. I often use the Number format using the shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + 1 but then have to reduce the 2 decimals down.
I have recorded a macro to apply this kind of formatting but the disadvantage of this is that I cannot undo any actions before that point - which has gotten me into some trouble on a few occasions .
Is there a macro that I can use that adjusts the "Normal" cell style number format from General to Number (with thousand separator but 0 decimals) each time I open a new book? As merging cell styles is also quite a mundane task..
This is my formula with concatenation: =K3/K1*100 & "c" & " Each"
This is the result of the values in K3 divided by K1: 6.41666666666667c Each
I would like to limit the decimal places to two: 6.41c Each.
I have tried to format the cell and none of the formatting options have any effect.
If possible I would like to use the rounding function but I do not know how to combine the formula + text + rounding.
How can I make excel display 321.165 as 321.16 when I have the cell format set to number and 2 decimal places instead of rounding it up to 321.17?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have a sum in my sheet (=U27*0.5).
Now obvously this is the value of U27 x 0.5, this varies depending on the value of U27, however is there a way to round up the sum to the nearest even number. So if the sum produces .75 then I want it to be .76.
I have a long list of data that is entered with 2 decimal points Example is 23.66.
This column is then tied to another column with a certain criteria. I need to round up the cell to read as 24 instead of 23.66. I tried Excel's build in tool but the cell still reads as 23.66 even though it can be viewed as 24.When you click on the cell, it still reads as 23.66.
Is there a way to use a rounding function with a Pivot Table.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to round off my numbers to specific integers. Sorta like a step function (in algebraic terms).
For example, my first few integers are 0-8-13. I want: 0<=X<8, 8<=X<13, etc.
So far, this is what I have: ...
we work with both Lotus 123 and Excel 2003. Lotus will be gone next year, but for now, the official mean to publish our reports is Lotus. With my work, I copy/paste a Lotus page to Excel. I use the following macro to convert Lotus format numbers (which Excel considers as text) to real numbers:
Sub ForceToNumber()
Dim wSheet As Worksheet
For Each wSheet In Worksheets
With wSheet
. Range("IV65536") = vbNullString
.Range("IV65536").Copy
.UsedRange.PasteSpecial xlPasteValues, xlPasteSpecialOperationAdd
End With
Next wSheet
End Sub
Source : http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthre...087#post184087. The problem is that I need to send back this data in Lotus. Excel considers decimal numbers with a coma as real numbers and numbers with a dot as a text. This previous macro fixes that. However, Lotus works the other way. Only numbers with a dot are considered real numbers. So I would need to find a way to code a macro that converts any numbers in the Excel sheet to a number with a dot. It's a bit like doing the opposite operation.
How to add numbers such as if a person has 15 points how do I input two points and have them added up to 17 points does it require multiple sheets or is there a command to do this seemingly simple operation.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am working on an inventory issue, we use a bar code scanner to read in inventory, and when we move inventory.
One of our inventory items has a number that is 20-numerical characters long, Excel seems to convert the last 5 characters to zeros (0).
An Example number would be: 89148000000286153971 Excel changes the number to: 89148000000286100000
We have a customer rebate in place with various levels of refund based on the quantity purchased during the year. I have used a sumproduct formula to calculate this before.
The customer used to have the following set up -
0-999 - £1.00 per unit rebate.
1000-1999 - £2.00 per unit rebate.
2000-2999 - £3.00 per unit rebate.
So if they bought 2501 units they would get a rebate of (1000*1)+(1000*2)+(501*3). However the customer has trigger points so rather than the above it is now -
0-999 - £1.00 per unit rebate.
1000-1999 - £2.00 per unit rebate.
2000-2999 - £4.00 per unit rebate if 2500 bought.
So now it would look like this - (1000*1)+(1000*2)+(501*4). However if they only bought 2499 units it would be (1000*1)+(1000*2)+(499*2).
Have Series 1 (to be a line chart) with 20 data points X values are 0 to 68. Have Series 2 (Bar chart) with 68 data points, again X values 0 to 68
Cant get series 1 to display beyond X value of 20
From a list of numbers I would like to delete values that have cents so only those transactions with a .00 amount are displayed
For example
34.95
21.88
21.00
56.00
45.77
Only those valaues ending in .00 will list. I tried filtering but I think there most be a function(s) string that might work or at least filter out the values with cents
Is there a way to delete only numbers ending in a decimal from a column of numbers? I have a column of numbers but only the non decimals are relevant to the next equation.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to find a way of counting decimal numbers if, say, they begin with 3.
For example, I might have 3.33, 4.1, 3.0, 5.65, 3.8, 3.7, 3.33, etc.
I want to count anything that begins with 3 (3.33, 3.0, etc). Using the data above the answer would be 5 ...5 numbers that begin with a 3.
If this possible?
There doesn't appear to be the facility with Countif. I don't want to truncate the data (the spreadsheet already is quite extensive). I have tried using =SUMPRODUCT((Y$2:Y$170 >=3)*(Y$2:Y$170<=3.9)) but this will return an answer only when there is a complete set of data within cells within the range.
I would have a preliminary data, a number, on sheet1. The final data would be on sheet2.
In the case where there is a whole number as the preliminary data, the data would remain the same as the final output. (eg. 248 --> 248)
In the case where there is a number with a decimal, I need a function where it looks at the original number as two sets of WHOLE numbers. (Eg. 248.30 --> 248 and 30). Where the digits to the left of the decimal remains the same and the digits to the right would be divided by x (in this case, 10). The final output would be 2483 (where 248 is the same and the 30 is divided by 10.
Since I am using an older version of excel, I cannot use quotient. I know that I would be using the vlookup function and perhaps an if function. however, I do not know how to separate the numbers in regards to the decimal.
My coworker's excel program is converting all data to decimals. He enters in 2004 as a date and it makes it 2.004. I opened the same file on my computer and it works fine. I have done all fo the formatting to try and make it a number or a general field. The general field is not showing a preview as if there is some error overriding the whole program. He has some other numbers that he has already entered as currency and they work fine. I was able to do a =2004 and it showed as 2004 of course.
View 3 Replies View Relatedwhen I tried to input numbers into an Excel spreadsheet (Excel 2003) the numbers were entered as decimals. Example: I type in 235 with NO decimal point, Excel enters it as 2.35, even when starting from scratch, using a new sheet or new workbook. I tried using format cell from the menu bar to choose "general" then as "number". Nothing changed. I also tried to set the decimal places at "0" using the number format. All that did was truncate the number to 2 with the .35 not being displayed in the cell. It IS displayed in the formula window as 2.35... but not as I entered it... 235. This happens no matter whether or not it's a brand new blank workbook or worksheet
View 2 Replies View Related