Any "Excel" experts here?

[TrevL]

My inner nerd/OCD has kicked in.
I have a spreadsheet which I log my daily steps on and columns for cumalative totals for month and year.   I also have columns for daily, monthly and yearly miles, which I've used a formula to convert from steps to miles.
The problem is with the miles columns, where it works out the entries to five decimal places, which I even think that is far too many.  I'd like to limit those to two decimal places.  Is there an easy way to do this please?  TIA.

[OffshoreAlan]

Highlight the cell, then from the menu select Format/Cells.  Then select Number from the category list and you then get a screen giving the option of number of decimal places.

[BRMan]

Right click the cell concerned, select format cells and then select number and set the number of decimal places from the choice box.  Then when happy use format painter on all similar cells


Cheers,

BR Man

[njee20]

Highlight the whole column when you do that, to ensure subsequent rows are still to 2dp.

Even easier highlight the column and find the button that looks like:

  0.00
->0.0

That'll just reduce the number of decimal places incrementally.

[chrism]

Right click the cell concerned, select format cells and then select number and set the number of decimal places from the choice box.  Then when happy use format painter on all similar cells

Easier to select all the cells required or, even, the entire column and choose the desired format from the menu.

[BRMan]

Nice one njee20,

[Trainfish]

The button @njee20 refers to is shown below



It may be a lot smaller than my picture though of course

[njee20]

The button @njee20 refers to is shown below



It may be a lot smaller than my picture though of course

Too many 0s in my version too, brain failing me in my old age!

[Trainfish]

For some reason I always click the wrong one first time so usually have to then click the other one twice or more 

[njee20]

Yep, same, yet when I drew it I knew exactly which one it was!

[TrevL]

Thank you all who replied to this.  It has worked to an extent, but the initial column where the steps get converted to miles using a formula (=IMPRODUCT(D2,0.00042), that dosen't.  I just get a "chime" from the computer and it doesn't change.  Even if I try to do an individual cell, it refuses to comply.  Still, two out of three ain't bad, and when I enter new data, the last two columns stay at two decimal places, so pretty happy with that.
Thanks again Guys.

[chrism]

Thank you all who replied to this.  It has worked to an extent, but the initial column where the steps get converted to miles using a formula (=IMPRODUCT(D2,0.00042), that dosen't.  I just get a "chime" from the computer and it doesn't change.  Even if I try to do an individual cell, it refuses to comply.  Still, two out of three ain't bad, and when I enter new data, the last two columns stay at two decimal places, so pretty happy with that.
Thanks again Guys.

Try changing your formulae to;

=ROUND(IMPRODUCT(D2,0.00042),2)

That should do the trick.

[TrevL]

Awesome!    That did the trick, Many thanks Chris