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Default Formula text and decimal place

Hi Bob,

Your suggestion does not cater for preservation of the Decimal Placings
of the original number in the final statement. Can you elaborate any
more please?

Cheers,

Aaron.
Bob Phillips wrote:
I am not clear as to why Trevor's formula is so complex, as this seems to do
it

="This weight "&A1&" is in "&A2

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Bob Phillips

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Hi,

Trevor Shuttleworth kindly wrote this formula for me:


A1=300
A2=g


300 This weight 300 is in g
300.1 This weight 300.1 is in g
300.12 This weight 300.12 is in g
300.123 This weight 300.123 is in g
300.1234 This weight 300.1234 is in g


Using:


="This weight
"&INT(A1)&IF(ISERROR(FIND(".",A1)),"","."&MID(A1,F IND(".",A1)+1,LEN(A1)-FIN*
*D(".",A1)))&"

is in "&A2


But, I have 2 areas I would like to refine it.


1 If I use a negative number in A1, I get 1 added to the number like
this: -0.5 becomes -1.5 and I dont want that


2 I need this to work when using zeroes as trailing numbers, not
always fractional decimal places: 300.00 instead of 300.12 currently it

sees 300.00 as just 300.


Can anyone help with this?


Thanks in advance,


Aaron.