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David McRitchie
 
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Hi Joshua,
Exactly what you asked for:
Use ##0.0E+0

More on cell formatting see first large table in
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...htm#cellformat
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"Myrna Larson" wrote in message ...
Scientific notation is probably the closest you'll get.

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:29:02 -0800, "Joshua Wong" <Joshua
wrote:

Hi,

I am wondering if there is a way to display numbers in engineering

notation?
ie. 3M if the number is 3e+6
or 5u if the number is 5e-6

Best regards,
Joshua.