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» Rounding Numerical Substrings

CATEGORY: Excel Financial Formulas

VERSIONS: All Microsoft Excel Versions

Problem:

Rounding the numbers in the string stored in cell A2 (12.34567<>3.4567) to 3 decimal places.

Solution:

Use the ROUND, LEFT, FIND, and MID functions in the following formula:
=ROUND(LEFT(A2,FIND("<>",A2)-1),3)&"<>"&ROUND(MID(A2,FIND("<>",A2)+2,255),3)

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Hiding conditional formula
dvtapse wrote on January 28, 2006 05:39 EST

Hi

If i give some formula and i want to hide the answer If the answer is 0, which formula i've to use. (if the answer is more than 0 i.e. 1 or more will be displayed)

Thanks

Deepak Tapse

joginder wrote on July 15, 2006 02:57 EST

If i give some formula and i want to hide the answer If the answer is 0, which formula i've to use. (if the answer is more than 0 i.e. 1 or more will be displayed)

let a1:a10 sum is 50 & b1:b10 sum 20 how i use this formula to minus a10-b10 in b8

response to dvtapse
DHS wrote on December 31, 1969 18:00 EST

you can use formatting of cells - select the cells with the answers and click on format-cells-number.
under the format type click on custom and select or type in the space #. this would hide values where values equal to 0 and onl show if there are some values

hope this anwers your qeury

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