SubFormat_Number_Example3()DimMyNumAs StringMyNum = FormatNumber(-56456, 2, , vbTrue, vbTrue) MsgBox MyNumEnd Sub As you can see the Fourth & Fifth Argument in the code are “vbTrue” which means the formatting for Negative number (fourth argument) & formatting for thousand separators (...
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Number formatting is a way to control how a number is displayed using numeric format string. For example, you can use format string '0.00' to format 1234.5678 as 1234.57. Numeric format strings often consist of one or more custom numeric specifiers listed...
Excel provides several built-in number formats. You can use these built-in formats as is, or you can use them as a basis for creating your own custom number formats. When you create custom number formats, you can specify up to four sections of format code. These sections of code define ...
Convert the numbers into text format as the function takes them as a string. Select range C5:C7 and go to the Home tab. From the Number group, open the drop-down menu and select Text. Create a new Module. Enter the following formula: Sub formatnumberfunction() Range("C5") = FormatNum...
The string value to format. format Optional. It is the format to apply to theexpression. You can either define your own format or use one of the named formats that Excel has predefined such as: FormatExplanation General NumberDisplays a number without thousand separators. ...
If you want Excel to treat certain types of numbers as text, you can use the text format instead of a number format. For example, if you are using credit card numbers, or other number codes that contain 16 digits or more, you must use a text format. ...
When a cell is formatted as Text, Excel will treat the cell value as a text string, even if you input a number or date. By default, the Excel Text format aligns values left in a cell. When applying the Text format to selected cells via theFormat Cellsdialog window, there is no optio...
SubFormatCellAsText()Range("C6").Value=" ' "&Format(Range("B6").Value,"0")EndSub Visual Basic Copy Important Notes We added a single quote ( ‘ ) before zero to enter the number format code as ”‘ 0 ” in the Text and Format functions argument to format a cell to a text valu...
3. Click OK. The date in selected cell has been converted to number string in mmddyyyy format If you want to convert date to number string in other format, you can take below list as reference. Date 2/23/2019 Format Cell as custom ddmmyyyy ddmmyy mmyyyy yyyymmdd Display 23022019 230219...