This is a guest post by our excel ninja – Hui.
Today we will learn how to format numbers and amounts in Indian currency format. Indian numbers are grouped differently than standard English numbers.
English Grouping 123,456,789.01
Indian Grouping 12,34,56,789.01
Quick and easy fix to show numbers in Indian format:
A custom number format of:
[>=10000000]##\,##\,##\,##0;[>=100000] ##\,##\,##0;##,##0
or
[>=10000000]"RS "##\,##\,##\,##0;[>=100000]"RS " ##\,##\,##0;"RS "##,##0
Will solve the problem.
A permanent solution to Indian Number Formats:
However there is better and more permanent solution using the Systems Regional Settings
- Goto the Control panel and select the “Region and Language” button
- Select “Additional Settings”
- Set digit groupings to the Indian grouping like this:

- Do the same on the Currency Tab and Apply
Now in Excel the Default “,” and “$” Style will show the way you wanted.
Thanks Hui:
Thank you so much for sharing this hack with all of our readers. 🙂
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11 Responses to “MLB Pitching Stats Dashboard in Excel+VBA by our VBA Class Student”
Hey Dan,
Thanks a lot... this is too good 🙂
Awesome stuff Dan! very impressed..
Thanks guys.
Some nice ideas in there, thanks for sharing. I noticed the list with teams has a missing value though ('Arizona Diamondbacks'). Also when manipulating Pivot Tables with VBA you should be really careful not to try to select a value that isn't in the Pivot Table, if you do all hell breaks loose 🙂 That's not the case here but just some advise as I learned the hard way...
Ah.....ya caught me.
dnrTeamName drives both the charts and the drop down list. It refers to:
=OFFSET(PvtTeams!$A$6,0,0,COUNTA(PvtTeams!$A$6:$A$40),1)
If you change A6 to A5, it fixes that little issue.
A better question though, who actually cares about the Arizona Diamondbacks?
🙂
Excellent post. Thanks
Great job, Dan! Thanks a million!
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Gr8 work Dan
Hi,
I downloaded file, but looks like everything is in xml. Was there suppose to be excel file as well?
Thanks!
I'm late to the party, but seeing this file in action and studying the underlying data in this Excel file has been AWESOME. I have TONS of new ideas to implement in my work files now. THANK YOU Dan and Chandoo!