Thanks Jerry. I used that plus some of Bob Phillip's ideas to create a
formula that solves the trailing zero display problem for 2 significant
figures and works for any number above zero including decimals. It gets
rather involved to write a general fomula that allows the number of sig fig's
to vary beyond 2. I'll share the formula after I have a chance to polish and
test thoroughly.

Alan Zaffiro

"Jerry W. Lewis" wrote:

A more general formula for rounding to a specified number of significant
figures is given in
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...244c8f41e91025
but that does not address the question of general display of trailing zeros.

Jerry

A Zaffiro wrote:

To report numbers in significant figures, Excel Help gives the following
formula and states that it is valid for numbers above zero:

=ROUND(B18,2-LEN(INT(B18))), where B18 is the number to round, and 2 is the
the number of significant figures desired.

In fact, it only works for numbers above 1, and if the number format is set
to 'general'

The formula works, but here's the problem: If the result ends in zero (e.g.
2.0), Excel only displays the last non-zero integer (e.g. 2). Since the last
zero is significant, this is a problem.