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Round numbers up or down

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Round numbers up or down

- [Instructor] Organizations of all kinds rely on specific data to make most of their decisions. Sometimes, though, you can work with data that is rounded to the nearest whole number, or perhaps even to the nearest hundred thousand or even million. In this movie, I will show you how to round data up and down, depending on your needs. My sample file is the Rounding workbook, and you can find it in the Chapter 3 folder of the Exercise Files collection. This workbook shows the average cost of orders for five different categories in the 20 different cities where the hotel chain we're working for has a property. What I'd like to do is to round the values either up or down to the nearest whole number, or use other criteria that I'll describe in a few minutes. So, let's say that I want to round the values up and down. To create my calculated field, I'll go to the Analysis menu, and click Create Calculated Field. I'll just work with one field and edit it as I go along. So, I'll just say…

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