This function has to do with the format of a cell and how many decimal places are shown. Applies only to numbers. Keep in mind that the actuall value is unchanged. For example, the number will be rounded if you specify 0 decimal places.
$60.42 - $1.81 = $58.61
There are several buttons that appear on Excel toolbar but not on other office toolbars, a few are conditional formatting, increase decimal, and decrease decimal.
Where a number is showing some decimal points and you want to decrease the amount of decimal points it shows, you can use the decrease decimal button to do it. Each time you click it, it will remove one decimal place until you have the amount you want or all are gone. There is also a corresponding increase decimal button, which does the opposite.
There is a function called ROUND which you can use to round to zero decimal places. If your number was in cell A2, the formula would be:=ROUND(A2,0)
It mean to add more decimal places to a value. Sometimes this will show a more accurate value, rather than a rounded up value which is being shown because there are not enough decimal places to show the value in full.
To convert from decimal to octal, use the function DEC2OCT.EXAMPLE: =DEC2OCT(58, 3) Converts decimal 58 to octal (072).
The number in the relevant cell is displayed with more digits after the decimal point.
Use the TRUNC function. You can specify the value and the amount of decimal places you want. =TRUNC(A2,1)
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12.5 percent can be written with a percent symbol or as a decimal in Excel: 12.5% 0.125
You would use scientific notation. In Excel it would become 6E+15 in the cell. This indicates that after the 6 that the decimal point should be moved over 15 places. The E stands for Exponent.
Excel 2007 has 1,048,576 rows, so it has more than 65,536 rows. Excel 2003 had 65,536 rows and it was not possible to increase that.