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Assigning a Macro to a Keyboard Combination
Hiding Rows Based on a Cell Value
There are many times that you simply need to work with whole numbers. Excel provides a handy function, INT, for just such times. This function takes a single argument and returns the integer value of that argument. For instance, consider the following:
=INT(12.34)
Using this formula, Excel returns a value of 12. You should be aware that INT always returns the next lower whole integer. This only seems odd when dealing with negative numbers. For instance, consider the following:
=INT(-43.21)
You may be tempted to believe that Excel would return a value of –43, but this would be wrong. When following the rule of always returning the next lower whole integer, Excel would return –44, which is the next integer lower than -43.21.
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