Changing decimals to commas and missing zeros

Lou

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I have a spreadsheet which has numbers with decimal thousand seperators rather than commas e.g. 178.455.136. If I do a find and replace I get 178,455,136 which is fine.

However there are some numbers e.g. 83.58 which needs to change to 83,580. I can change the number of decimal places of the original to 83.580 but when I do a find and replace it goes back to 83,58. There are also some numbers e.g. 972 which should be 972,000 or 59.3 which should be 59,300. I guess what I probably want is a way to force the original data to have the correct number of zeros at the end.

Hopefully there is a simple solution to this as i don't want to have to go through and add zeros manually.

Thanks for any help,

Lou
 

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Sorry, but if the dot is the thousands separator (rather than the comma) how can 83.58 be 83,580 and 972 be 972,000 and 59.3 be 59,300? There must always be 3 digits between thousands separators or between the thousands separator and the decimal separator.

If your data is that inconsistent there won't be a simple solution.
 
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