Excel Snippet: Preserve Decimals in Result of Formula

I might not post many Excel snippets, but I’m collecting them into a small Excel Snippets series to make them easy to find.

I do far more manipulation of data in SQL scripts than I do in Excel, but sometimes need to accomplish something in Excel for clients. This time I was working with a client using Excel to generate a Microsoft Dynamics GP macro to update some costs.

We realised when testing that the decimal places were being lost by Excel so the macro contained 100 for £100 instead of the 100.00 which is needed for the macro to run successfully. I tired a couple of things and eventually found that TEXT can be used to retain the decimals.

The example, below, also includes a ROUND to reduce the result of a calculation to only two decimals.

=TEXT(ROUND(B2,2),”.00″)

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