How to get excel to display a certain number of significant figures?

Question

I am using excel and i want to display a value to a certain number of significant figures.

I tried using the following equation

=ROUND(value,sigfigs-         


        

Answer 1

You could try custom formatting instead.

Here's a crash course: https://support.office.com/en-nz/article/Create-a-custom-number-format-78f2a361-936b-4c03-8772-09fab54be7f4?ui=en-US&rs=en-NZ&ad=NZ.

For three significant figures, I type this in the custom type box: [>100]##.0;[<=100]#,##0