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Stop Excel showing decimal point when no fractional digits
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Are you struggling with Excel displaying a decimal point even when there are no fractional digits? Many users seek to format cells to show a thousands separator and up to two fractional digits without the decimal point appearing unnecessarily. While the format string "#,##0.##" works in VB and C#, it seems to encounter a bug in Excel that retains the decimal.
I want to format a range of cells such that a thousands separator is displayed if needed, and up to two fractional digits are displayed. If there are no fractional digits, then I do not want the decimal point displayed.
In VB and C#, the format string to achieve this is "#,##0.##". But when I use this string in Excel, the decimal point is still displayed even when there are no fractional digits. This appears to be a bug with Excel. Has anyone found a workaround?
If anyone is curious, I'm creating the spreadsheet from code using ClosedXML. So I can set the format string for cells, but I cannot go in and change Excel settings for all the users of my software.
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