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Wed 22 Oct 2008, 15:57 Delegate Olga said...

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How to use 'Round' function?

Tue 28 Oct 2008, 13:56 Trainer Laura said...

RE: Excel

Hi Olga

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

The Round function will round a number to a given number of decimal places.

If A1 contains 1234.567

Then =Round(A1,2) returns 1234.57
And =Round(A1,0) returns 1235

A slightly different use is to round to hundreds or thousands using negative as the number of places.

So =Round(A1,-3) would return 1000.

I hope that explains it.

Laura GB

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