How to use multiple conditional operators in a custom number format Excel?

Question

My brother asked my help formatting a Worksheet. He wants thousands to be formatted with 'K', millions with 'M' and trillions billions with 'T' 'B'.

• € 1.000 -> € 1,0 K
• € 1.000.000 -> € 1,0 M
• € 1.000.000.000 -> € 1,0 B

I found the following custom format on the Internet (here)

[>=1000000] $#,##0.0,,"M";[<1000000] $#,##0.0,"K";General

I adapted this to

[>999999] $#,##0.0,,"M";[>999] $#,##0.0,"K";General

Adding more conditions will result in an error.

[>999999999] $#,##0.0,,,"B";[>999999] $#,##0.0,,"M";[>999] $#,##0.0,"K";General

Finally, this seems to work when I ignore the numbers under one thousand.

[>999999999] $#,##0.0,,,"B";[>999999] $#,##0.0,,"M";$#,##0.0,"K"

In the end, I just made a formula that does the formatting, dividing the number and concatenating the €uro sign and the K, M or B.

The question is, whether there is a way to add more than two conditions.

Answer 1

I think the solution, such as it is, lies in your choice of tag: Conditional Formatting. The custom formatting rules you refer to show research but seem not to meet your brother's requirement (eg $ cf €) so I am uncertain what exactly the content to be formatted is and am assuming these are number values.

Also that you will be able to convert for a locale that suits you, the requirement is for Windows, not OSX, negative numbers need not be considered and Euro cents are irrelevant.

HOME > Styles - Conditional Formatting, New Rule..., Use a formula to determine which cells to format and Format values where this formula is true::

=AND(A1>0,A1<1000000)

Format..., select Number tab, Category: Custom and:

"€ "#.0, " K"  

OK, OK. Then another formula rule:

=AND(A1>999999,A1<1000000000)  

with format:

"€ "#.0,, " M"  

and a third formula rule of:

=A1>999999999  

with format:

 "€ "#.0,,, " T"  

The order in which the rules are applied may be significant.