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Reply Thu 13 Mar 2008, 16:29Delegate Shantell said...

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Advanced Formatting

How do you convert into currency

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Reply Thu 20 Mar 2008, 16:33Trainer Rajeev said...

RE: Advanced Formatting

Dear Shantell

Thank you for attending the Excel Intermediate course. I hope you enjoyed the training.
I am not sure if the question is more specific to 2003 or 2007 version.

To convert cells containing numbers in to currency

In 2003 or previous version is Format > Cells... In the format cells dialog box in the number tab choose currency with the desired number of decimal places.

In 2007 - simply right-click after selecting the cells that you require to be in currency format. Choose the format cells... from the shortcut menu.

And follow the same steps as 2003.

NB: the shortcut key is CTRL+SHIFT+$. This will format all your selected cells to the currency with two decimal places of the regional settings (

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