This tutorial will show you how to change the number of Decimal places in Microsoft Excel using any one of these 3 methods.

The DEC2BIN function in Microsoft Excel is an Engineering function, and its purpose is to convert a decimal number to binary. The formula for the DEC2BIN is DEC2BIN( Number, [Places]).

By placing a zero before the decimal, the number is more readily recognized as less than one. By configuring a custom number format you can tell Excel to remove leading zeros.

Q. Thanks for your advice in the September 2001 issue on converting fractions in Excel into decimal values. But how about those of us who need to do the reverse—that is, convert decimal values into ...

First, Excel recognizes values formatted as Currency or Accounting number formats as financial values, so the program automatically adds two decimal places (you can change the number of decimal ...