When you work on a Microsoft Excel worksheet, you do data entry in a worksheet, and You have entry countless cells or all of the numbers that come with decimals of 2 or 3 or something else. You can avoid pressing the period sign to enter the decimal point in every entry in this situation.
You want a setting that makes decimal points automatically. This rise windows article will guide you on how to Insert a Decimal Point in Excel Automatically.
There are at least two methods for Automatically Inserting a Decimal Point in Excel.
- using Excel Options
- using Registry Editor
We will review both ways in this post.
How to Automatically Add a Decimal Point in Excel using Excel Options?
To automatically insert decimal points in Excel, do the following steps:-
Step 1. Firstly, open Microsoft Excel on your computer.
Step 2. Next, click on the
Step 3. Then, click the
Step 4. After that, Switch to the
Step 5. Check the option, “Automatically insert a decimal point.”
Step 6. Then, enter the
Now, let me see in an example how it works. By default, Places is set to 2. So, if you enable the “Automatically insert a decimal point” when you type 1234, it will automatically change to 12.34. In case you want to make it 1.234, you’ll need to enter
How to Automatically Add Decimal Points in Excel using Registry Editor?
To automatically add decimal points in Excel using Registry Editor, do the following steps:-
Step 1. Open the Registry Editor.
Step 2. Next, navigate to the following path in the Registry Editor:-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0
Step 3. After that, right-click on the
Step 4. Next, Name the newly created key as
Step 5. Then, you’ll need to create one more key under excel. For that, right-click the
Step 6. Then , right-click on the
Step 7. Now, Set its name as
Step 8. Double-click on
Step 9. Then, Click the
Step 10. After that, reboot your PC to apply the changes.
That’s all for this article. I hope this article will add some value to your work.
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