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two significant numbers in colums

two significant numbers in colums

two significant numbers in colums

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Is there a quick way to change many numbers after decimal points to two significant numbers within a column?

RE: two significant numbers in colums

Do you want to CHANGE the values, or just display a set number of significant digits?

RE: two significant numbers in colums

To truncate the number to say 2 decimal places use =TRUNC(Cell, 2).

Add a column, use TRUNC to create the truncated number and then Copy and Paste Special to get the truncated number into the original column. Delete the added column.

Stephen Argles
Land & Marine
www.landandmarine.com

RE: two significant numbers in colums

Choose range, then cells format with right clic/number/choose option....that´s all

RE: two significant numbers in colums

Quote:

To truncate the number to say 2 decimal places use =TRUNC(Cell, 2).


But usually (if you want to change the actual number, rather than how it is displayed) you will want to round, rather than truncate, so use = ROUND(Cell,2)
 

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services
http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/
 

RE: two significant numbers in colums

One way is using the following formula:
=round(cell,INT(# Significant digits - log(cell))

this formula will work for both normal numbers and decimals

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