How Do You Drop Decimal Places Without Rounding In Microsoft Excel?
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software offers users a large collection of tools for manipulating sets of numbers and text. The mathematical functions in Excel allow you to automate the process of erasing the decimal portion of a number and leaving just the whole number digits to the left of the decimal point. Once you know the right function to use, the procedure is straightforward. Open a blank worksheet in Excel and type a decimal number in the A1 cell. Use this worksheet for practice before applying the procedure to an actual file. Type the “integer function” into cell B1 as follows: f=INT(A1). The integer function lops off the decimal value of a number leaving only the whole number digits to the left of the decimal place. The formula in cell B1 instructs Excel to find the integer value of cell A1 and place that value in cell B1. Click any other cell in the spreadsheet to exit from cell B1. The cell will now display the integer value of the number in A1. For example, if A1 contains th