It puts commas in to break the groups of thousands. They are sometime called thousand separators. Before being formatted you could have a number like 16777216. When it is formatted to the comma style it will appear as 16,777,216.00 including the two decimal points at the end. They can be removed if you wanted.
causes the cells to display with two decimal places and commas as thousands separators
The comma style will format numbers with two decimal places and insert commas as thousand separators. So if you had a number like 3455679 in a cell and formatted it as comma style, it would come up as:3,455,679.00
Yes, the comma style button is located on the ribbon in Microsoft Excel. It can be found in the Number group under the Home tab. Clicking on this button applies a predefined comma format to selected cells.
Format cells to comma style.
If there are only two digits to the left of the decimal point, then we're having some difficulty understanding the need for a comma. Be that as it may, the way Excel displays numbers can be selected under FORMAT \ CELLS \ Number .
It is known as Comma Style. The same effect is caused by using the Currency or Accounting styles.
Go to the Format Cells option and to the Number option. Press Ctrl - 1 to access Format Cells. You can use Ctrl-Shift-1 to apply the thousands formatting too. Another option is to click on the comma icon.
yes it is
Excel does not use format symbols.
The Comma format.
comma style
You have the comma style that will do it from the toolbar, or you can do it by using the numeric format called Number and ticking the "Use 1000 Separator" tick box.
Yes, it is proper to use a comma to separate a month and year in a date format, such as January 2022.