the excel number format that applies a thousand comma separate where appropriate inserts a fixed us dollar sign aligned at the left edge of the cell applies two decimals places and leaves a small amount of space at the right edge of the cell to accommodate a parenthesis for negative numbers is the what?
The answer is accounting number format
Format | Format Cell | Number Tab | Number -- Click box in front of "Use 1000 Separator" >> In Excel this type of format is known as "accounting number format"
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.
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
You can achieve this format using the following custom number format: "$#,##0.00". This format will display the dollar sign to the left of the number and insert commas for thousands separator.
9,000,833 using commas for thousand separators.
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.
£1000.00
1,400,000
1,210,477
Eight thousand, fifty-four.
As a numerical value, this is equal to 430,203,666,510. The comma separators aren't crucial, and the number can also be written 430203666510.
Sixty-nine thousand, two hundred thirty-one.