Custom Format for Numbers

[Guest]

We have a system of Calculating Money in Lakhs & Crores, unlike Millions &
Billions. The Commas inevitablly confuse, can we have a system as follows…

by default expected as

1,000 1 Thousand 1,000
100,000 1 Lakh (100 Thousand) 1,00,000
10,000,000 1 Lakh (100 Lakh) 1,00,00,000

##,###,##0 custom format does not work

Thanking you in Anticipation

 

[Guest]

correction...

by default expected as

1,000 1 Thousand 1,000
100,000 1 Lakh (100 Thousand) 1,00,000
10,000,000 1 Crore (100 Lakh) 1,00,00,000

 

[Niek Otten]

See this link (maybe wrapped)

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...0ac2f5fc5ab/d4212e16183e1a4c#d4212e16183e1a4c

 

[Bob Phillips]

Custom formatting does work, but the trick is that you have to escape the
commas with a leading \. So, instead of

##,###,##0

you use

##\,###\,##0

You also have to stop Excel defaults in for any numbers, so test for greater
100,000 and greater than 10,000,000 like so

[>=100000]##\,##\,##0.00

In its final form, allowing

[>=10000000]##\,##\,##\,##0.00;[>=100000]##\,##\,##0.00;##,##0.00
--
HTH

Bob Phillips

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[Guest]

Thanx a lot Niek & Bob; that is a good help
--
Dr. Sachin Wagh
MBBS, DHA, DPH

Custom formatting does work, but the trick is that you have to escape the
commas with a leading \. So, instead of

##,###,##0

you use

##\,###\,##0

You also have to stop Excel defaults in for any numbers, so test for greater
100,000 and greater than 10,000,000 like so

[>=100000]##\,##\,##0.00

In its final form, allowing

[>=10000000]##\,##\,##\,##0.00;[>=100000]##\,##\,##0.00;##,##0.00
--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(remove nothere from email address if mailing direct)