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    Cool Need help Rounding down

    Ok, here is my situation.

    I have a worksheet (Sheet1) that gets information from other sheets (1)

    So in cell D7 I have the function ='1'!K33

    K33 is from the Sheet labeled (1) obviously. Now the problem I am having is if the number 20.6, it automatically rounds up to 21. I need to number to round down to 20 regardless if its 20.1, or 20.9.

    Since I already have a formula in D7, how do I still get the information from the other sheet but have the number round down for me. Is it possible?

    Thanks in advanced
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    Re: Need help Rounding down

    You can use the function ROUNDDOWN which can have formula which generate a result nested within itsself

    for example

    A1 = 20
    B1 = 0.9
    C1 = "=Sum(A1:B1)" which would give 20.9

    you could nest the formula in C1 into rounddown

    A1 = 20
    B1 = 0.9
    C1 = "=rounddown(sum(A1:B1),0)" this would result in the cell value being rounded down to 20

    you can even round down the refrenced value as below

    =ROUNDOWN('1'!K33,0)

    this will rounddown the refrenced value, but not the value in '1'!K33


    --- How the Formula Works ---

    =ROUNDDOWN("THIS IS THE NUMBER TO ROUND DOWN, IT CAN EVEN BE ANOTHER FORMULA", "THIS IS HOW MANY NUMBERS TO ROUND DOWN TO")

    i hope this has been of some help to you?

    Teshi
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    Re: Need help Rounding down

    Thank you very much

    The =ROUNDOWN('1'!K33,0) worked

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    Thumbs up Re: Need help Rounding down

    Glad i could be of assistance

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    Re: Need help Rounding down

    One last thing if you know the answer

    What if in my I7 cell I have the formula =SUM('1'!L32:M32)

    How would I use the rounddown fomula then?

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    Re: Need help Rounding down

    you would use the formula the same way, you would nest you equation within the first condition of the Rounddown formula i will let you give it a try to see if you can work it out, if not post here again and i will give you the formula that should work

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    Re: Need help Rounding down

    The thing I had a problem with is that there is two different formulas in the cell

    I tried using =ROUNDDOWN('1'!L32:M32,0) but then I'm leaving out the SUM formula somewhere

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    Re: Need help Rounding down

    The thing I had a problem with is that there is two different formulas in the cell

    I tried using =ROUNDDOWN('1'!L32:M32,0) but then I'm leaving out the SUM formula somewhere

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    Re: Need help Rounding down

    You were so close with your own fomula, as you said SUM is all you are missing... a little pearl of wisdon that i got taught a long time ago with excel formula, " so long as it is writen in a logical manner, you can use as many formula in one cell, so long as it is mathematically possible!"

    =ROUNDDOWN(Sum('1'!L32:M32),0)

    just remember to use your brackets in the equations where they would be in the idividual formula, and when you combine them you need only 1 = sign look at the 2 equation below and see how i have joined the two formula

    e.g.

    =Sum('1'!L32:M32)
    =ROUNDDOWN("NUMBER",0)

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    Re: Need help Rounding down

    that makes alot of sense, well thank you

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    Re: Need help Rounding down

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