Comments on: Displaying Thousands

By: Eye

Eye — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:16:00 +0000

Thanks Ian

As I’m residing in Sweden I needed kkr (and million kr) and kkr worked but not any other…
Now I learned that I missed just the quotation marks, so now I’m rather pleased.

Nice to know that you still can learn things as you get older, just remembering them is harder

BTW comma doesn’t work either as we uses space for this… but I did know that.

Thanks again!!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:01:00 +0000

See J-Walk's SpreadSheetPage Here http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/tips/tip19.htm for more custom number formats.

By: Charlie III

Charlie III — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:26:00 +0000

All this time I have been doing this formatting and I never knew why or how this worked, I just did it. Now I know. The things you learn from Dick. I use #,##0,;[RED](#,##0,)to get -987654821 to look like (987,655). We like to see our negatives in red. Notice the number is rounded up from a 4 to 5.

By: Ian Huitson

Ian Huitson — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:47:00 +0000

Eye

Try "k$" #,##0, for k$
"M$" #,##0,, for M$ etc

Hui...

By: Eye

Eye — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:13:00 +0000

Great way to do this.

But then I would like to have the currency displayed also and Excel will not accept any
other than the previous ones. I would like e.g. kilo$ (k$) or mega$ (M$) is this possible?

Tried to find where to add this and had no success, as Excel seems to revert
to currency settings by default when # is used. Ok I may have missed something, some where

BTW a great page for learning more…. Keep it up and running as I go here every workday.

Best regards

By: Ian Huitson

Ian Huitson — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:56:00 +0000

and better then #,##0,, is

#,##0,.##

for 2 Decimal places etc ie 12,235,678 will show as 12,345.678
but is still 12,345,678 for Calculation purposes

Hui...

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:08:00 +0000

And millions is #,##0,,

Each comma knocks off another triplet of digits off the right end of the number.