I have rounded some numbers to the thousands digits.  I need help finding a 
formula that rounds the displayed (rounded thousands) digits.  Everything I 
try only calculates it based on the unrounded numbers and as such many sum 
numbers are off by 1 (or really 1,000).  Any help would be awesome!  thanks

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:57:01 -0800, ALG <ALG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have rounded some numbers to the thousands digits.  I need help finding a 
>formula that rounds the displayed (rounded thousands) digits.  Everything I 
>try only calculates it based on the unrounded numbers and as such many sum 
>numbers are off by 1 (or really 1,000).  Any help would be awesome!  thanks

It sounds as if you did NOT really round the numbers, but rather just changed
the formatting in the cells.  To ROUND a number, you need to use the ROUND
function, or equivalent.

e.g.

A1:	=your_formula

vs

A1:	=ROUND(your_formula,2)

--ron

To round thousands in the way you seem to want to you can use this formula:
=ROUND(A1,-3)/1000.  
This will round , for example, 1200 to 1 and 1650 to 2 and 32559 to 33.
You can then use these numbers in your calculations.

"ALG" wrote:

> I have rounded some numbers to the thousands digits.  I need help finding a 
> formula that rounds the displayed (rounded thousands) digits.  Everything I 
> try only calculates it based on the unrounded numbers and as such many sum 
> numbers are off by 1 (or really 1,000).  Any help would be awesome!  thanks