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Excel Custom Format

JJJackal · 2019-06-12 18:21:04

Hi All, I have the following in a single text box in excel: (-0.02934,-0.02161) I want to custom format this single box to look like: (-0.029,-0.022) Does anyone know the code for the custom format to do this? Much thanks

12-06-2019 07:21PM

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JJJackal

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Hi All,

I have the following in a single text box in excel:

(-0.02934,-0.02161)

I want to custom format this single box to look like:

(-0.029,-0.022)

Does anyone know the code for the custom format to do this?

Much thanks

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#2 12-06-2019 09:11PM

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="("&ROUND(MID(F41,2,FIND(",",F41)-2),3)&", "&ROUND(MID(F41,FIND(",",F41)+1,LEN(F41)-FIND(",",F41)-1),3)&")"

This will do the trick

Found it on another forum

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#3 12-06-2019 09:44PM

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If this is output of CONCATENATE from two cells, you could do:
=CONCATENATE(TEXT(A1,"0.000")&","&TEXT(B1,"0.000"))

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