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When you apply the Currency format to a number, the currency symbol appears right next to the first digit in the cell. You can specify the number of decimal places that you want to use, whether you want to use a thousands separator, and how you want to display negative numbers.
Overview. In its simplest form, the TEXT function says: =TEXT (Value you want to format, "Format code you want to apply") Here are some popular examples, which you can copy directly into Excel to experiment with on your own. Notice the format codes within quotation marks.
Follow these steps to format numbers: Select the cells containing the numbers you need to format. Select CTRL+1. On a Mac, select Control+1, or Command+1. In the window that displays, select the Number tab (skip this step if you're using Microsoft 365 for the web). Select a Category option, and then select specific formatting changes on the right.
In Excel, there are several ways to combine text and numbers. Use a number format to display text before or after a number in a cell. If a column that you want to sort contains both numbers and text—such as Product #15, Product #100, Product #200—it may not sort as you expect.
The DOLLAR function, one of the TEXT functions, converts a number to text using currency format, with the decimals rounded to the number of places you specify. DOLLAR uses the $#,##0.00_);($#,##0.00) number format, although the currency symbol that is applied depends on your local language settings.
If you need to display numbers with different separators for thousands or decimals, you can temporarily replace the system separators with custom separators.
Used for general monetary values and displays the default currency symbol with numbers. You can specify the number of decimal places that you want to use, whether you want to use a thousands separator, and how you want to display negative numbers.
Excel doesn’t have a default function that displays numbers as English words in a worksheet, but you can add this capability by pasting the following SpellNumber function code into a VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) module.
Converts a number from one measurement system to another. For example, CONVERT can translate a table of distances in miles to a table of distances in kilometers. Syntax. CONVERT (number, from_unit, to_unit) Number is the value in from_units to convert. From_unit is the units for number. To_unit is the units for the result.
To accurately display percentages, before you format the numbers as a percentage, make sure that they have been calculated as percentages, and that they are displayed in decimal format. Percentages are calculated by using the equation amount / total = percentage.
Select the cell or range of cells that contains the numbers that you want to format as text. How to select cells or a range. Tip: You can also select empty cells, and then enter numbers after you format the cells as text. Those numbers will be formatted as text.