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I am extrcting data via DDE from excel to another program
Is there a way to keep the formating og the number when the data is extracted
example: cell formula=J28/I2
Displayed=23

What is extracted = 0.232786543998

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change the formula to round(J28/I28,2) so that the value extracted will
be 0.23


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I am extrcting data via DDE from excel to another program.
Is there a way to keep the formating og the number when the data is extracted?
example: cell formula=J28/I28
Displayed=23%

What is extracted = 0.2327865439983


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You can do =round(J28/I28,2)*100&"%"

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Thank you for your reply.
What I would like to extract is 23% is that possible?


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