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174091 2003-09-09 06:48:00 How do I type 1.4million onto excel?Apparently excel says that its 1.40
not 1.4 million
Help!
yingxuan (3330)
174092 2003-09-09 07:15:00 1,400,000
or
1400000

What are you trying?
What formatting do you have for the cell?
godfather (25)
174093 2003-09-09 09:29:00 AS Godfather says its not clear what your after. If you want to reformat the cell (but keep the actual value as is) so it has the word Million or the letter M for short you can click format-cells then enter one of these examples into the custom format box.

Example using the number 1234567 ...

#,###,,"M" 1M
#,###.0,,"M" 1.2M
#,###.00,,_-"Million" 123.46 Million
parry (27)
174094 2003-09-10 02:47:00 Im typing the amount of people.Not sure what u mean by format..?:| yingxuan (3330)
174095 2003-09-10 02:49:00 Im doing a graph like this

1952 20,000
1984 500,000
1998 1.3 million
1999 1.4 million
2000 1.4 million
2003 1.5 million

If i was to type 1.3000000 then excel would recongise as 1.40 not 1.4 million.
The numbers are the numbers of people
and Im using those figures to plot a graph
Bar graph
yingxuan (3330)
174096 2003-09-10 05:10:00 Of course Excel will see 1.300000 as 1.3.
Thats exactly what you have entered.

If you enter it with commas as 1,300,000 then it will show as 1,300,000
Commas "," are quite different to a decimal "."

If you want it to be in Millions, then enter all your data to the same base.
20,000 is 0.02 Million
500,000 is 0.5 Million

etc
godfather (25)
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