cell formatting zero padding on binary no's
I'm struggling through doing some binary math on excel. Ugh. You'd think
Excel is written by programmers, so they would see the value of having
some programmer-friendly bitwise math and binary, octal and hex formatting
stuff in there, if for no other reason than they could use it themselves.
Anyway, that's my rant, here's my question
I have some numbers in cells that I convert to binary
C5: 55 DEC2BIN(C5) gives me 1010101
I'd really like to display that as
0101 0101
.... ie with a leading zero and a space between the nibbles.
It appears that cell formatting (for example which which allows me to show
a number 357 as 00035) does not work with binary numbers! Or am I doing
something wrong. I went into cell format and made a custom format of
0000 0000
and it doesn't do anything for me. When I apply that same formatting to a
number like 286 it becomes:
0000 0286
which is what I expect it to do. Any way to make that work for binary?
Thanks in advance....
Ross.
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maybe something like: =TEXT(--DEC2BIN(C5),"0000 0000") The -- coerces the text to a number. RossK wrote: > > I'm struggling through doing some binary math on excel. Ugh. You'd think > Excel is written by programmers, so they would see the value of having > some programmer-friendly bitwise math and binary, octal and hex formatting > stuff in there, if for no other reason than they could use it themselves. > > Anyway, that's my rant, here's my question > > I have some numbers in cells that I convert to binary > > C5: 55 DEC2BIN(C5) gives me 1010101 > > I'd really like to display that as > > 0101 0101 > > ... ie with a leading zero and a space between the nibbles. > > It appears that cell formatting (for example which which allows me to show > a number 357 as 00035) does not work with binary numbers! Or am I doing > something wrong. I went into cell format and made a custom format of > > 0000 0000 > > and it doesn't do anything for me. When I apply that same formatting to a > number like 286 it becomes: > > 0000 0286 > > which is what I expect it to do. Any way to make that work for binary? > > Thanks in advance.... > > Ross. -- Dave Peterson
ec357201Hey, that works nicely. Didn't know about the -- operator. Thanks for that! Ross. In article <4230931B.F3F8CB3D@netscapeXSPAM.com>, ec35720@netscapeXSPAM.com wrote: > maybe something like: > > =TEXT(--DEC2BIN(C5),"0000 0000") > > The -- coerces the text to a number. > > RossK wrote: > > > > I'm struggling through doing some binary math on excel. Ugh. You'd think > > Excel is written by programmers, so they would see the value of having > > some programmer-friendly bitwise math and binary, octal and hex formatting > > stuff in there, if for no other reason than they could use it themselves. > > > > Anyway, that's my rant, here's my question > > > > I have some numbers in cells that I convert to binary > > > > C5: 55 DEC2BIN(C5) gives me 1010101 > > > > I'd really like to display that as > > > > 0101 0101 > > > > ... ie with a leading zero and a space between the nibbles. > > > > It appears that cell formatting (for example which which allows me to show > > a number 357 as 00035) does not work with binary numbers! Or am I doing > > something wrong. I went into cell format and made a custom format of > > > > 0000 0000 > > > > and it doesn't do anything for me. When I apply that same formatting to a > > number like 286 it becomes: > > > > 0000 0286 > > > > which is what I expect it to do. Any way to make that work for binary? > > > > Thanks in advance.... > > > > Ross.
Ross, The interesting thing about this is that 101 0101 isn't the binary for decimal 55. The binary for 55 decimal is 110111. 55 hex is 0101 0101 in binary, though. -- Earl Kiosterud mvpearl omitthisword at verizon period net ------------------------------------------- "RossK" <Spam@nothanks.ru.kidding> wrote in message news:Spam-1003051306210001@localhost... > > > I'm struggling through doing some binary math on excel. Ugh. You'd think > Excel is written by programmers, so they would see the value of having > some programmer-friendly bitwise math and binary, octal and hex formatting > stuff in there, if for no other reason than they could use it themselves. > > Anyway, that's my rant, here's my question > > > I have some numbers in cells that I convert to binary > > C5: 55 DEC2BIN(C5) gives me 1010101 > > I'd really like to display that as > > 0101 0101 > > ... ie with a leading zero and a space between the nibbles. > > > It appears that cell formatting (for example which which allows me to show > a number 357 as 00035) does not work with binary numbers! Or am I doing > something wrong. I went into cell format and made a custom format of > > 0000 0000 > > and it doesn't do anything for me. When I apply that same formatting to a > number like 286 it becomes: > > 0000 0286 > > which is what I expect it to do. Any way to make that work for binary? > > > Thanks in advance.... > > > Ross.
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Hi, I am working on a report generated by a business system In Excel Format. The table in the Excel file is a Sub Total Table that is expandable. I need to manipulate on the data of the expanded table, however noted that the formula below could not work as I copy downwards. The second and third argument of the formula is fixed by "_" before the cell address E17 and D17. =IF(LEFT(P10,1)="5",_E17,-_D27) Also I find that when I move the cursor to the cell for the 2nd and 3rd argument, the resulting cell address that appears in the formula is not the...
Conditional Formatting
I'm trying to use a simple "less than" condition, but Access keeps interpreting the comparison field as a text string instead of a number, causing strange results; e.g. 5>11 Any quick solutions? (I want to avoid assigning leading zeros if possible) First of all less than is < not >. Conditional formatting is based on a fields value. If you have a totals field called total and you want all totals > than 500 to be red, then you set the formatting of that field to red. Such as: Field Value Is greater than 500; then select the color blue from the 'A' drop-...
Formatting Cells #16
Hello, I am currently using Office 2003 - OS - Windows XP I was just approaches with a question pertaining to Excel and thought I would also direct to you because at this point I am unsure of the answer. Is it possible to automatically make a cell have 10 spaces and nothing else? For example, if you input a student’s name with only 6 letters, Excel will automatically add 4 spaces after their name. Also, if the student’s name has 11 characters, it will only allow 10 characters to be inputted. Thanks in Advance. Hi, If the names are in column A starting at A1, create a helper col...
access a cell in a range
I have variables: dim myrange as Range dim myString as String myrange specifies a specific column. How can I specify the cell in row 1 of myRange so I can set it's contents to myString? Hi there keyser soze, (Fan of the movie, eh? ;) <g> ) Like so .. myString = myRange(1).Value HTH -- Regards, Zack Barresse, aka firefytr, (GT = TFS FF Zack) <keyser_Soze@usa.com> wrote in message news:1128697509.320303.12550@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >I have variables: > > dim myrange as Range > dim myString as String > > myrange specifies a specific ...
Track changes to cell formats
Is there any way (or workaround) to track changes made to cell formats, such as number of decimals displayed, bolding, etc. I really need to know which formats have been changed. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Trish I think I'd use another worksheet that was formatted exactly the way I wanted it. (maybe hide that sheet). Then I could compare that base sheet's format with the other sheet's current format. Trish wrote: > > Is there any way (or workaround) to track changes made to > cell formats, such as number of decimals displayed, > ...
Date format on checks
How do you change the date format on checks? Money 2005 is using a day/month/year format and several payees have complained that 1/5/05 means 1 May 2005 and their banks are objecting. Have you tried messing with Region Settings for the operating system? "ROBERT L GUTHRIE" <rlguthrie@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:tcXHd.2206$cZ1.904@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net... > How do you change the date format on checks? Money 2005 is using a > day/month/year format and several payees have complained that 1/5/05 means 1 > May 2005 and their banks are objecting....