What is the Excel round down function?
When performing financial analysis in ExcelExcel ResourcesLearn Excel online with 100's of free Excel tutorials, resources, guides, cheat sheets, and more! CFI's Excel resources are the best way to learn Excel on your own terms. These guides and articles teach spreadsheet formulas, shortcuts, and functions step-by-step with screenshots, templates, lessons, guides, and more it’s often useful to round down a number to either a decimal place or a whole number. Thankfully, with the Excel round down function, this task is quite easy, even for a large dataset.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to round a number down in Excel using the =ROUNDDOWN() formula.
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How the Excel round down formula works
The round down formula in Excel requires you to reference a number and then specify how many units (decimal places) you want to round it to.
=ROUNDDOWN()
In the example below, we have shown you how to create a table that uses the formula to link to one number and then return a certain number of decimal places.
Step 1: type “=ROUNDDOWN(“
Step 2: link to the cell you want to round down and add a comma
Step 3: type the number of units, or link to a cell that contains the number of units you want to display
Step 4: close bracket and press enter.
In the screenshot below you will see an example of the Excel round down function in action.
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