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How to show Indian Currency Format in Excel?

  • Last updated on July 26, 2010
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This is a guest post by our excel ninja – Hui.

Indian Currency Formatting, Number Formatting in ExcelToday 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

  1. Goto the Control panel and select the “Region and Language” button
  2. Select “Additional Settings”
  3. Set digit groupings to the Indian grouping like this:
    Indian Currency Formatting, Number Formatting - Settings in Control Panel
  4. 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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    H1 !
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    @Damian.. Welcome to chandoo.org. Thanks for the comments.

    Yes, you can use the same with Excel 2003 lists too.

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    Hi, is there a vlookup formula for the second example (IDlist)? I used a similar formula to look up the ID for the person, but the reverse way (look up the person with the ID) comes up N/A.

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