IBM Lotus Symphony


User-defined Number Formats

You can define your own number formats to display numbers in Lotus® Symphony™ Spreadsheets.

As an example, to display the number 10,200,000 as 10.2 Million:

  1. Select the cells to which you want to apply a new, user-defined format.

  2. Choose Layout - Properties - Text and Cell Properties - Numbers.

  3. In the Categories list box select "User-defined".

  4. In the Format code text box enter the following code:

    0.0,, "Million"

  5. Click OK.

The following table shows the effects of rounding, thousands delimiters (,), decimal delimiters (.) and the placeholders # and 0.

Table 1. Format codes and their effects
Number .#,, "Million" 0.0,, "Million" #,, "Million"
10200000 10.2 Million 10.2 Million 10 Million
500000 .5 Million 0.5 Million 1 Million
100000000 100. Million 100.0 Million 100 Million

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