How to Stop Excel from giving a number in scientific notation
If you ever enter a very large number into a cell, you'll notice that Microsoft Excel displays it in scientific notation. For example, when you enter the number 1231231231234 in a cell, Excels displays 1.23123E+12. No matter how large you make the cell width, Excel still displays a number larger than 12 characters in scientific notation. To display the number in a format other than scientific notation, you need to reformat the cell(s). Here's how: We have two methods to get rid of this issue. Method 1 Concate the scientific notation with a single quote('), you will get the proper number. 1.11E+19 '11111111111111100000 But we have a issue still exists if it cross 20, here is an example. 1.11E+20 '1.11111111111111E+20 Disadvantage: So you cannot use method1 if it cross 20. Method 2 Step1: Select the scientific notation , Go to format cell, select Text Step2: Select the scientific notat...
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