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Method 1 of 3:
Using the Increase and Decrease Decimal Buttons
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Images 1 of How to Round in Excel Enter the data into your spreadsheet. -
Images 2 of How to Round in Excel Highlight any cell(s) you want rounded. To highlight multiple cells, click the top left-most cell of the data, then drag your cursor down and to the right until all cells are highlighted. -
Images 3 of How to Round in Excel Click the Decrease Decimal button to show fewer decimal places. It's the button that says .00 → .0 on the Home tab on the 'Number' panel (the last button on that panel).- Example: Clicking the Decrease Decimal button would change $4.36 to $4.4.
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Images 4 of How to Round in Excel Click the Increase Decimal button to show more decimal places. This gives a more precise value (rather than rounding). It's the button that says ←.0 .00 (also on the 'Number' panel).- Example: Clicking the Increase Decimal button might change $2.83 to $2.834.
Method 2 of 3:
Using the ROUND Formula
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Images 5 of How to Round in Excel Enter the data into your spreadsheet. -
Images 6 of How to Round in Excel Click a cell next to the one you want to round. This allows you to enter a formula into the cell. -
Images 7 of How to Round in Excel Type 'ROUND' into the 'fx' field. The field is at the top of the spreadsheet. Type an equal sign followed by 'ROUND' like this: =ROUND. -
Images 8 of How to Round in Excel Type an open parenthesis after 'ROUND.' The content of the 'fx' box should now look like this: =ROUND(. -
Images 9 of How to Round in Excel Click the cell that you want to round. This inserts the cell's location (e.g., A1) into the formula. If you clicked A1, the 'fx' box should now look like this: =ROUND(A1. -
Images 10 of How to Round in Excel Type a comma followed by the number of digits to round to. For example, if you wanted to round the value of A1 to 2 decimal places, your formula would so far look like this: =ROUND(A1,2.- Use 0 as the decimal place to round to the nearest whole number.
- Use a negative number to round by multiples of 10. For example, =ROUND(A1,-1will round the number to the next multiple of 10.
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Images 11 of How to Round in Excel Type a closed parenthesis to finish the formula. The final formula should look like this (using the example of rounding A1 2 decimal places: =ROUND(A1,2). -
Images 12 of How to Round in Excel Press ↵ Enter or ⏎ Return. This runs the ROUND formula and displays the rounded value in the selected cell.- You can replace ROUND with ROUNDUP or ROUNDDOWN if you know you want to round up or round down to a certain number of decimal points.[1]
- Similarly, the formula MROUND will round to the nearest multiple of any specified number.[2]
Method 3 of 3:
Using Cell Formatting
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Images 13 of How to Round in Excel Enter your data series into your Excel spreadsheet. -
Images 14 of How to Round in Excel Highlight any cell(s) you want rounded. To highlight multiple cells, click the top left-most cell of the data, then drag your cursor down and to the right until all cells are highlighted. -
Images 15 of How to Round in Excel Right-click any highlighted cell. A menu will appear. -
Images 16 of How to Round in Excel Click Number Format or Format Cells. The name of this option varies by version. -
Images 17 of How to Round in Excel Click the Number tab. It's either on the top or side of the window that popped up. -
Images 18 of How to Round in Excel Click Number from the category list. It's on the side of the window. -
Images 19 of How to Round in Excel Select the number of decimal places you want to round to. Click the down-arrow next to the 'Decimal places' menu to display the list of numbers, then click the one you want to select.- Example: To round 16.47334 to 1 decimal place, select 1 from the menu. This would cause the value to be rounded to 16.5.
- Example: To round the number 846.19 to a whole number, select 0 from the menu. This would cause the value to be rounded to 846.
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Images 20 of How to Round in Excel Click OK. It's at the bottom of the window. The selected cells are now rounded to the selected decimal place.- To apply this setting to all values on the sheet (including those you add in the future), click anywhere on the sheet to remove the highlighting, and then click the Home tab at the top of Excel, click the drop-down menu on the 'Number' panel, then select More Number Formats. Set the desired 'Decimal places' value, then click OK to make it the default for the file.
- In some versions of Excel, you'll have to click the Format menu, then Cells, followed by the Number tab to find the 'Decimal places' menu.
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