Easily limit number of decimal places by rounding up/down/to even without formula in Excel

Normally the Decimal feature can decrease the decimal places in cells, but the actual values showing in formula bar don’t change at all. Kutools for Excel’s Round utility can help you round values up/down/to even to specified decimal places easily. Full Feature Free Trial 60-day!

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Normally we can format cells to limit the number of decimal places in Excel easily.

1. Select the cells you want to limit the number of decimal places.

2. Right click the selected cells, and select the Format Cells from the right-clicking menu.

3. In the coming Format Cells dialog box, go to the Number tab, click to highlight the Number in the Category box, and then type a number in the Decimal Places box.
For example, if you want to limit only 1 decimal place for selected cells, just type 1 into the Decimal places box. See below screen shot:

4. Click the OK in the Format Cells dialog box. Then you will see all decimals in selected cells are changed to one decimal place.

Note: After selecting cells, you can click the Increase Decimal button  or Decrease Decimal button  directly in the Number group on the Home tab to change the decimal places.

Let's say you calculate the sum of a series of numbers, and you want to limit the number of decimal places for this sum value in the formula, how could you get it done in Excel? You should try the Round function.

The basic Round formula syntax is =ROUND(number, num_digits); and if you want to combine the Round function and other formula, the formula syntax should be changed to =Round(original_formula, num_digits).

In our case, we want to limit one decimal place for sum value, so we can apply the formula as =ROUND(SUM(A1:A9),1) (In this formula, A1:A9 is the range you want to sum, 1 means you want to limit one decimal place.)