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I am working with a series of complex equations. I need them to carry a
constant 4 significant figures throughout the entire spread sheet until it is rounded at the end. My issue is that I cannot get them all to show. IE: 1) 0.0389 2) 0.2345 These are two different values that hold two different significant figures. How do I get excel to show all the sig figs since the rounding function seems to be limited. Thanks for all the help! P.s. I dont know a lot about macros.... |
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:33:01 -0800, Alterac
wrote: I am working with a series of complex equations. I need them to carry a constant 4 significant figures throughout the entire spread sheet until it is rounded at the end. My issue is that I cannot get them all to show. IE: 1) 0.0389 2) 0.2345 These are two different values that hold two different significant figures. How do I get excel to show all the sig fig’s since the rounding function seems to be limited. Thanks for all the help! P.s. I dont know a lot about macros.... Try this formula provided by Harlan Grove: =--TEXT(A1,"."&REPT("0",SigDigits)&"E+000") --ron |
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There may be a better way, but one way would be to use this formula:
=VALUE(TEXT(A2,"0.000E+00")) The text function forces XL to use 4 significant digits and then because its text, the rest of the value is forgotten. The text is then converted back to a number. -- Best Regards, Luke M *Remember to click "yes" if this post helped you!* "Alterac" wrote: I am working with a series of complex equations. I need them to carry a constant 4 significant figures throughout the entire spread sheet until it is rounded at the end. My issue is that I cannot get them all to show. IE: 1) 0.0389 2) 0.2345 These are two different values that hold two different significant figures. How do I get excel to show all the sig figs since the rounding function seems to be limited. Thanks for all the help! P.s. I dont know a lot about macros.... |
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Excel 2007
Engineering and scientific number formats. Numbers stay numbers, no conversion to text. Numbers not rounded, just format changes. Four significant digits displayed, from Meg to Micro. Macros. http://c0444202.cdn.cloudfiles.racks.../01_12_10.xlsm |
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