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How to stop Excel from rounding a number?
Hi. Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Any help will be greatly
appreciated. We are setting up a spreadsheet so my husband can enter: -the price of an item -Calculate the sales tax of .08375 and have sales tax added to price each. -multiply the sum of the item price & sales tax by the quantity of items entered This is what happens: Price ea Sales Tax before tax Added QTY Total $0.307 $0.33 3 $1.00 Ordinarily, the total should equal $.99 I've tried changing the formats from currency to number, to accounting to scientific notation. Still have the problem. When I increase the decimal points on the total column, the number is: 0.99813375 I've used the ROUNDDOWN and ROUNDDUP formulas, but some entry totals require ROUNDDOWN while others require ROUNDUP in order to maintain accuracy. I prefer not to figure out which of these formulas is required for each entry. Is there a way to keep the number .99 as it is when reducing the decimal numbers back to 2 - just chop off the rest of the numbers that follow? Thanks! Sue |
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How to stop Excel from rounding a number?
Try rounding the price + tax added amount.
A1 = price = 0.307 B1 = price + tax (0.08375) =ROUND(A1*(1.08375),2) C1 = QTY = 3 D1 = Total =C1*B1 Result = 0.99 -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "lightdancing" wrote in message ... Hi. Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Any help will be greatly appreciated. We are setting up a spreadsheet so my husband can enter: -the price of an item -Calculate the sales tax of .08375 and have sales tax added to price each. -multiply the sum of the item price & sales tax by the quantity of items entered This is what happens: Price ea Sales Tax before tax Added QTY Total $0.307 $0.33 3 $1.00 Ordinarily, the total should equal $.99 I've tried changing the formats from currency to number, to accounting to scientific notation. Still have the problem. When I increase the decimal points on the total column, the number is: 0.99813375 I've used the ROUNDDOWN and ROUNDDUP formulas, but some entry totals require ROUNDDOWN while others require ROUNDUP in order to maintain accuracy. I prefer not to figure out which of these formulas is required for each entry. Is there a way to keep the number .99 as it is when reducing the decimal numbers back to 2 - just chop off the rest of the numbers that follow? Thanks! Sue |
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How to stop Excel from rounding a number?
* BIG SMILES * Thanks T. Valko. That did the trick. I looked at the
ROUND formula but didn't understand it. Still not sure how it works, but I'm mighty glad it does! "T. Valko" wrote: Try rounding the price + tax added amount. A1 = price = 0.307 B1 = price + tax (0.08375) =ROUND(A1*(1.08375),2) C1 = QTY = 3 D1 = Total =C1*B1 Result = 0.99 -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "lightdancing" wrote in message ... Hi. Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Any help will be greatly appreciated. We are setting up a spreadsheet so my husband can enter: -the price of an item -Calculate the sales tax of .08375 and have sales tax added to price each. -multiply the sum of the item price & sales tax by the quantity of items entered This is what happens: Price ea Sales Tax before tax Added QTY Total $0.307 $0.33 3 $1.00 Ordinarily, the total should equal $.99 I've tried changing the formats from currency to number, to accounting to scientific notation. Still have the problem. When I increase the decimal points on the total column, the number is: 0.99813375 I've used the ROUNDDOWN and ROUNDDUP formulas, but some entry totals require ROUNDDOWN while others require ROUNDUP in order to maintain accuracy. I prefer not to figure out which of these formulas is required for each entry. Is there a way to keep the number .99 as it is when reducing the decimal numbers back to 2 - just chop off the rest of the numbers that follow? Thanks! Sue . |
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How to stop Excel from rounding a number?
You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback!
-- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "lightdancing" wrote in message ... * BIG SMILES * Thanks T. Valko. That did the trick. I looked at the ROUND formula but didn't understand it. Still not sure how it works, but I'm mighty glad it does! "T. Valko" wrote: Try rounding the price + tax added amount. A1 = price = 0.307 B1 = price + tax (0.08375) =ROUND(A1*(1.08375),2) C1 = QTY = 3 D1 = Total =C1*B1 Result = 0.99 -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "lightdancing" wrote in message ... Hi. Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Any help will be greatly appreciated. We are setting up a spreadsheet so my husband can enter: -the price of an item -Calculate the sales tax of .08375 and have sales tax added to price each. -multiply the sum of the item price & sales tax by the quantity of items entered This is what happens: Price ea Sales Tax before tax Added QTY Total $0.307 $0.33 3 $1.00 Ordinarily, the total should equal $.99 I've tried changing the formats from currency to number, to accounting to scientific notation. Still have the problem. When I increase the decimal points on the total column, the number is: 0.99813375 I've used the ROUNDDOWN and ROUNDDUP formulas, but some entry totals require ROUNDDOWN while others require ROUNDUP in order to maintain accuracy. I prefer not to figure out which of these formulas is required for each entry. Is there a way to keep the number .99 as it is when reducing the decimal numbers back to 2 - just chop off the rest of the numbers that follow? Thanks! Sue . |
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