Round to nearest 1000 in Excel

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This tutorials shows how to Round to nearest 1000 in Excel

If you need to round a number to the nearest 1000, you can use the ROUND function and supply -3 for number of digits.

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Formula

=ROUND(number,-3)

Explanation

In the example, cell C6 contains this formula:

=ROUND(B6,-3)

The value in B6 is 1,234,567 and the result is 1,235,000.

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With the ROUND function, negative numbers for the second argument round to the left of the decimal and positive numbers round to the right of the decimal.

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In this case, by supplying -3, we are telling ROUND to round the number to the 3rd place on the left – the 1000’s place.

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