formatting of numbers within a string

[Edward]

I need to copy data from a cell into a string. The data is numeric.
I want to format this number in the string. How can I do that without
writing my own complicated format function?

For example:

A1: 12345
B1: "You have " & A1 & " outstanding tickets."

I want B1 to say "You have 12,345 outstanding tickets" not "You have
12345 outstanding tickets".

Thanks.

Edward

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

="You have "&TEXT(A1,"#,##0")&" outstanding tickets"

you can do the same for any other formatting like percentage and currency
etc


="You owe me "&TEXT(A1,"$#,##0")&" and you better cough it up or you'll end
up as fish food"


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

 

[Bob Phillips]

="You have "&TEXT(A1,"#,##0")&" outstanding tickets."


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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

 

[Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)]

You can use the TEXT function to do that.

="You have "&TEXT(A1,"#,##0")&" outstanding tickets."

Rick

 

[Guest]

Maybe

="You have " &TEXT(A1,"#,###") & " outstanding tickets"

Mike

 

[Guest]

="some text " & TEXT(A1,"#,##0") & " other text"

where A1 contains the value.

 

[Guest]

try
= "You have " & text(A1,"#,##0") & " outstanding tickets."

 

[Edward]

Thanks.

="You have "&TEXT(A1,"#,##0")&" outstanding tickets"

you can do the same for any other formatting like percentage and currency
etc

="You owe me "&TEXT(A1,"$#,##0")&" and you better cough it up or you'll end
up as fish food"

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom









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[Guest]

Or you could ignore the formula in cell B1 and give cell A1 the custom format
of:

"You have" #,### "outstanding tickets."

Then just type the number in cell A1 as normal (the formatting will add the
rest).