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How to abbreviate numbers in Excel?

If you have a list of large numbers typed in Excel and now you want to abbreviate them as below screenshots shown, you can read this tutorial for the details.

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You can customize the number formatting in the Format Cells dialog.

1. Select the numbers you need to abbreviate, and right click to select Format Cells from the context menu.

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2. In the Format Cells dialog, click Number > Custom, and type [>999999]#,,"M";#,"K" into Type textbox. See screenshot:

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3. Click OK to close dialog, now the large numbers are abbreviated.

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Tip: If you just need to abbreviate the large number as thousand “K” or million “M”, you can type #,"K" or #,,"M" into the textbox. And if you want to display much larger number like 12000000000 or 12000000000 as 12B or 12T, you need to type #,,,"B" or #,,,,"T". And if you need to show million and trillion together, you need this [>999999999.999]#,,,"B";[>999999.999]#,,"M";#,##0 _M.

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How might someone do this but with decimals within the numbers, such as 1.2M?
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