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It is often necessary when creating financial reports to round figures to some value other than the nearest dollar. One common rounding point is to the nearest fifty dollars. If you need to round figures in this manner, then there are a number of formulas you can use to do the rounding.
The first approach is to use the MROUND function. This function allows you to round to any value you want, and has been covered in other ExcelTips. Basically, you would use the function as follows if the value you want to round is in cell B7:
=MROUND(B7,50)
The MROUND function only works with positive values, so if there is a chance you'll be using negative values, then you can't use MROUND. In these instances, you can resort to the regular ROUND function. Either of the following variations will produce the exact same results:
=ROUND(F5/50,0)*50 =ROUND(F5*2,-2)/2
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2017-05-10 09:34:43
Russell
thanks Michael - very elegant. I will certainly think about using the SIGN function instead of logical tests for the sign in future.
2017-05-09 03:05:35
Michael (Micky) Avidan
@Russell,
This can be a lot shorter.
Try: =MROUND(B7,50*SIGN(B7))
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2017-05-08 05:57:09
Russell
MRound does actually work with negative numbers, but the signs of the value to be rounded and the multiple to round to have to be the same. E,g. MROUND(-21,-2) will give the answer -22 and MROUND(21,2) will give the answer 22, but if the values are of opposite signs the formula gives the #NUM! error .
So alternatives would be to use either of:
=IF(B7>=0,MROUND(B7,50),MROUND(B7,-50))
=IFERROR(MROUND(B7,50),MROUND(B7,-50))
Longer than Allen’s formulae above, and similar to Tom's formula below, but I would find it easier to understand what the formula is doing.
I don’t know why Microsoft couldn’t have handled this within the MROUND function to save the need for such workarounds.
2016-01-13 09:54:58
Tom
Negative numbers can also be handled as:
=IF(B7<0,-MROUND(-B7,50),MROUND(B7,50))
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