Monday October 31, 2016 at 11:42am
Working with numbers comes with a few rules and one such rule that deals with numbers in decimals is to round them off. If you work with Excel, you know that it doesn’t round off numbers unless they’re being treated as currency. If you’re dealing with other types of numbers i.e. non-currency ones, and need to round off numbers to certain decimal point, there’s a pretty simple way to do it.
Open the MS Excel file you’re working with and select the cell, entire row, or entire column that you want the app to round off. In the ‘Home’ tab, go to the Number set of tools and you will see two buttons next to each other The one with the arrow pointing left will increase how many decimal places are shown for a number. If there are no numbers, it will simply add a zero. The button with the arrow pointing right is the one you need. That’s the one that ’rounds’ the numbers up. Click it once and it will reduce the decimal places shown by one position and round the last digit up. Click it again and it’s reduced by one more decimal point.
Take for example you have a number 4.125. If you click the decimal place button with the left arrow once, it will change the number to 4.1250 i.e., one decimal position will be added. If you click the decimal place button with the right arrow once, this same number will change to 4.13 rounding the ‘2’ to a ‘3’.
You can apply the round-off rule to entire rows and columns, and multiple cells so if you’ve got a table with a lot of rounding up to do, the process will be easy and not redundant.