We can use a variety of formulas to round numbers in Excel depending on the situation. We have ROUND, ROUNDUP, ROUNDDOWN, MROUND, INT, TRUNC, CEILING, FLOOR, FIXED, EVEN, ODD and few more. To know how to use all these formulas and how to round numbers based on any criteria, just read on.
Rounding Formulas in Excel
Before learning the tips, first lets understand various rounding formulas & what they do. Look at this:
| Formula | What it does? |
| ROUND | Rounds a number to specified decimal points (or multiples of 10) |
| ROUNDUP | Rounds up a number |
| ROUNDDOWN | Rounds down a number |
| MROUND | Rounds to nearest multiple of specified number |
| INT | Rounds down to nearest integer |
| TRUNC | Gives you only integer portion |
| CEILING | Rounds up a number to nearest multiple of 1,10,100… |
| FLOOR | Rounds down a number to nearest multiple of 1,10,100… |
| EVEN | Gives next even number |
| ODD | Gives next odd number |
| FIXED | Rounds and converts to text format (with commas if you want) |
18 Rounding Formula Tips
1. Round to 2 decimal points
Example: 1.2649 to 1.26
2. Round up to 2 decimal points
Example: 1.2649 to 1.27
3. Round to nearest integer
Example: 1.2649 to 1
4. Round to nearest multiple of 10
Example: 544.234 to 540
5. Round up to nearest multiple of 10
Example: 544.234 to 550
6. Round to nearest thousand
Example: 312789123 to 312789000
7. Round to nearest million with one decimal point
Example: 312789123 to 312.8
8. Round to nearest multiple of 2
Example: 43 to 44
9. Round to nearest multiple of 5
Example: 93 to 95
10. Round down to hundred
Example: 301 to 300
11. Get only the integer portion of a number
Example: -23.34 to -23
12. Round a number to 2 decimals and convert to text
Example: 312789.26921 to 312,789.27
13. Get next even number
Example: 42.1 to 44
14. Get next odd number
Example: 44.93 to 45
15. Round to nearest quarter ($0.25)
Example: 19.14 to 19.25
16. Round to next 9 (ie 19,29,39 etc.)
Example: 23 to 29
17. Round up to next 1000
Example: 124567 to 125000
18. Get only decimal portion of a number
Example: 23.345 to 0.345
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What about .2 tips?
Well, those are for you to fill down. Go ahead and write formulas for both these situations & you have the .2 tips!
18.1 Waiter friendly pricing
Lets say you run a hotel where customers usually tip 15% of bill amount. Now, to make it easy, you want to price your items such that when 15% is added, the total amount becomes a round number like $1.00, $2.00 etc.
For example: If a dish’s current price is $2.50, then 15% tip on it would be $0.37. This makes the total $2.87.
If you modify the price to $2.60, with tip the total would be $3.00.
Assuming current price of a dish is in A1, what formula will give you new price?
18.2 Rounding to nearest Monday
Lets say you have some dates in a list and you want them to round to nearest Monday. Assuming you have a date in A1, what formula gives nearest Monday?
Go ahead and figure them out. Post your answers using comments.
21 Responses to “How to Filter Odd or Even Rows only? [Quick Tips]”
Infact, instead of using =ISEVEN(B3), how about to use =ISEVEN(ROW())
So it takes away any chance of wrong referencing.
I like Daily Dose of Excel
I like it.
Just a heads up, you do need to have the Analysis ToolPak add-in activated to use the ISEVEN / ISODD functions. An alternative to ISEVEN would be:
=MOD(ROW(),2)=0
rather than use a formula, couldn't you enter "true" in first cell and "false" in the second and drag it down and than filter on true or false.
Just for clarification, is Ashish looking to filter by even or odd Characters or rows?
so many functions to learn!
Nice support by chandoo and team as a helpdesk. Give us more to learn and make us awesome. Always be helpful.......
In case you want to delete instead of filter,
IF your data is in Sheet1 column A
Put this in Sheet2 column A and drag down
=OFFSET(Sheet1!A$1,(ROWS($1:1)-1)*2,,)
(This is to delete even rows)
To delete odd rows :
=OFFSET(Sheet1!A$2,(ROWS($1:1)-1)*2,,)
If your numbered cells did not correspond to rows, the answer would be even simpler:
=MOD([cell address],2), then filter by 0 to see evens or 1 to see odds.
I sometimes do this using an even simpler method. I add a new column called "Sign" and put the value of 1 in the first row, say cell C2 if C1 contains the header. Then in C3 I put the formula =-1 * C2, which I copy and paste into the rest of the rows (so C4 has =-1 * C3 and so forth). Now I can just apply a filter and pick either +1 or -1 to see half the rows.
Another way, which works if I want three possibilities: in C2 I put the value 1, in C3 I put the value 2, in C4 I put the value 3, then in C5 I put the formula =C2 then I copy C5 and paste into all the remaining rows (so C6 gets =C3, C7 gets =C4, etc.). Now I can apply a filter and pick the value 1, 2, or 3 to see a third of the rows.
Extending this approach to more than 3 cases is left as an exercise for the reader.
Another way =MOD(ROW();2). In this case, must to choose betwen 1 and 0.
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Thanks for the tip, it worked like magic, saved having to delete row by row in my database.
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Hi Chandoo- First of all thanks for the trick. It helped me a lot. Here I have one more challenge. Having filtered the data based on odd. I want to paste data in another sheet adjacent to it. How can I do that?
For Example-
A 1 odd
B 3 odd
C 4 even
D 6 even
I have fileted the above data for odd and want to copy the "This is odd number" text in adjacent/next sheet here. How can I do that. After doing this my data should look like this
A 1 odd This is odd number
B 3 odd This is odd number
C 4 even
D 6 even
Hi! Could you please help me find a formula to filter by language?
Thank you!
Chandoo SIR,
I HAVE A DATA IN EXCEL ROWS LIKE BELOW IS THERE ANY FORMULA OR A WAY WHERE I CAN INSTRUCT I CAN MAKE CHANGES , MEANS I WANT TO WRITE ONLY , THE FIG IS FRESH, BUT IN BELOW ROW IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY TAKE THE SOME WORDS FROM FIGS AND MAKE IN PLURAL FORM , WHILE USING '' ARE'' LIKE BELOW
The fig is fresh - row 1
Figs are fresh - row 2
The Pomegranate is red - row 3
Pomegranates are red - row 4
=IF(EVEN(A1)=A1,"EVEN - do something","ODD - do something else") with iferron (for blank Cell)