Formatting a formula

beckys

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Hello,
I have the following formula:

IF(ROUND(J98,2)=ROUND(SUMIF('Sheet2'!$A$8:$A$1000,C97,'Sheet2'!$D$8:$D$1000),2), "OK", "Off By "&J98-SUMIF('Sheet2'!$A$8:$A$1000,C97,'Sheet2'!$D$8:$D$1000))


When the result is false, the text that gets entered in the cell goes out to many decimal points, i.e. "off by 0.0246271358543424". Do you know how to format this so that the text would read "off by 0.02"?

Thanks!!
Becky
 

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=IF(ROUND(J98,2)=ROUND(SUMIF(Sheet2!$A$8:$A$1000,C97,Sheet2!$D$8:$D$1000),2), "OK", "Off By "& format(J98-SUMIF(Sheet2!$A$8:$A$1000,C97,Sheet2!$D$8:$D$1000),"0.00"))
 
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=IF(ROUND(J98,2)=ROUND(SUMIF(Sheet2!$A$8:$A$1000,C97,Sheet2!$D$8:$D$1000),2), "OK", "Off By "& format(J98-SUMIF(Sheet2!$A$8:$A$1000,C97,Sheet2!$D$8:$D$1000),"0.00"))
Never heard of the "format" function.

I'll be you meant to use TEXT(...).

=IF(ROUND(J98,2)=ROUND(SUMIF(Sheet2!$A$8:$A$1000,C97,Sheet2!$D$8:$D$1000),2),"OK","Off By "&TEXT(J98-SUMIF(Sheet2!$A$8:$A$1000,C97,Sheet2!$D$8:$D$1000),"0.00"))
 
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lol. yeah, I meant "TEXT". I'm so used to VB now... I barely know excel itself anymore.
 
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