How can I format bytes a cell in Excel as KB, MB, GB etc?

Question

I have a value in a cell that\'s in bytes. But nobody can read 728398112238. I\'d rather it say 678.37GB

To write a formula to format it relatively easy (here\'s one

Answer 1

I use CDH hadoop and when I export excel report, I have two problems;

1) convert Linux date to excel date,
For that, add an empty column next to date column lets say the top row is B4, paste below formula and drag the BLACK "+" all the way to your last day at the end of the column. Then hide the original column

=(((B4/1000/60)/60)/24)+DATE(1970|1|1)+(-5/24)

2) Convert disk size from byte to TB, GB, and MB
the best formula for that is this

[>999999999999]# ##0.000,,,," TB";[>999999999]# ##0.000,,," GB";# ##0.000,," MB"

it will give you values with 3 decimals just format cells --> Custom and paste the above code there