Rounding to thousands in excel

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bridgetv

Does anyone know of a way to round to thousands in excel with a custom
format. I am trying to round as follows:

If the number is 49,677,298.86 I want 49,600 to display
If the number is 3,037,136.67 I want 3,000 to display
If hte number is 2,369,098.33 I want 2,400 to display

Thanks for your help.
 
Hi,

You have two issues here you are trying to format and to round down. You
can handle the formatting by:

Create the custom format #,###,

The rounding will require something like:
=ROUNDDOWN(H11,-5)
 
Hmm...

(1) What rounding rules are you proposing? Your first example rounds
DOWN, your third example rounds UP.

(2) With that, your example rounds to hundred thousands, not thousands -
there's no way to do that just with formatting. You can round to the
closest 100,000 with:

=ROUND(A1,-5)


To round just the display to *thousands*:

Format/Cells/Number/Custom #,##0,
 
Thanks! I am trying to round up. In the first example I gave I should
have wrote 49,700. Sorry fo r the confusion. I am going to ry your
suggestions.

Thanks again to all fo the help.
 
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