I am sure I am doing something incredibly stupid here but just cant seem to
figure this out.

I have a budget work sheet. The first column is the account number. the
next twelve columns are each month's budget (Jan-Dec). In the original
budget file, some numbers were simply keyed in and others are formulas.
(Some are a gross # times a percentage and others a gross # divided by 12
months).

I am creating a text file to import the budget data into my financial
system.

The first thing I did was to take the budget file and copy it into its own
file by using paste special - values and formats. my number formats are all
##### with no decimals.

This worked perfectly for those #s that were hard keyed in. The ones that
are from formulas - while visually they look like they are formatted #####,
if you are sitting on the cell, it actually is formatted #####.#########.

I need to concatenate all the columns into one cell with a comma separating
each value. The numbers cannot contain any decimals but I cannot seem to get
rid of them. I have tried everything.

Can someone help? thanks.!

A format is just a view of a number. While the actual number may have
decimals the format does not have to show all of the decimals. That is the
case here. Your actual number has decimals. You can use the round function to
remove the zeros

=round(A1, 2)

will remove the zeros from the number stored in cell A1.
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Mary Lou" wrote:

I am sure I am doing something incredibly stupid here but just cant seem to
figure this out.

I have a budget work sheet. The first column is the account number. the
next twelve columns are each month's budget (Jan-Dec). In the original
budget file, some numbers were simply keyed in and others are formulas.
(Some are a gross # times a percentage and others a gross # divided by 12
months).

I am creating a text file to import the budget data into my financial
system.

The first thing I did was to take the budget file and copy it into its own
file by using paste special - values and formats. my number formats are all
##### with no decimals.

This worked perfectly for those #s that were hard keyed in. The ones that
are from formulas - while visually they look like they are formatted #####,
if you are sitting on the cell, it actually is formatted #####.#########.

I need to concatenate all the columns into one cell with a comma separating
each value. The numbers cannot contain any decimals but I cannot seem to get
rid of them. I have tried everything.

Can someone help? thanks.!

Thank you soooo much. you have no idea how long i struggled with this.

"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

A format is just a view of a number. While the actual number may have
decimals the format does not have to show all of the decimals. That is the
case here. Your actual number has decimals. You can use the round function to
remove the zeros

=round(A1, 2)

will remove the zeros from the number stored in cell A1.
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Mary Lou" wrote:

I am sure I am doing something incredibly stupid here but just cant seem to
figure this out.

I have a budget work sheet. The first column is the account number. the
next twelve columns are each month's budget (Jan-Dec). In the original
budget file, some numbers were simply keyed in and others are formulas.
(Some are a gross # times a percentage and others a gross # divided by 12
months).

I am creating a text file to import the budget data into my financial
system.

The first thing I did was to take the budget file and copy it into its own
file by using paste special - values and formats. my number formats are all
##### with no decimals.

This worked perfectly for those #s that were hard keyed in. The ones that
are from formulas - while visually they look like they are formatted #####,
if you are sitting on the cell, it actually is formatted #####.#########.

I need to concatenate all the columns into one cell with a comma separating
each value. The numbers cannot contain any decimals but I cannot seem to get
rid of them. I have tried everything.

Can someone help? thanks.!