{"id":298,"date":"2017-09-21T23:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/?p=298"},"modified":"2017-09-21T23:01:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:01:42","slug":"using-excels-round-function-round-nearest-thousand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/09\/21\/using-excels-round-function-round-nearest-thousand\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Excel&#8217;s ROUND function to round to the nearest thousand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscriber Maki K. asks \u2018in Excel how do I show $8,607 as $9,000 and $43,035 as $43,000?\u2019.\u00a0 The answer is the ROUND function.<\/p>\n<p>You may be familiar with the ROUND function as it is often used to round a number or the result of a calculation to two decimal places.\u00a0 So, 2.36 * 5% would give you 0.118.\u00a0 ROUND(2.36*5%, 2) gives you 0.12.<\/p>\n<p>You can also use a negative number as the second parameter to round to the left of the decimal point.\u00a0 So, ROUND(8607, -3) gives you 9000 and ROUND(43035,-3) gives you 43000.<\/p>\n<p>This can be useful if you have developed a detailed spreadsheet but want to present the numbers as a high-level budget with numbers rounded to the nearest hundred or thousand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscriber Maki K. asks \u2018in Excel how do I show $8,607 as $9,000 and $43,035 as $43,000?\u2019.\u00a0 The answer is the ROUND function. 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