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
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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP
"lightdancing" wrote in message
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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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