How do I round down a tax percentage

Once I calcaulate a tax rate, if the end result is $5.968, it automatically
rounds up when a final total is calculated. I do not want this to happen. I
need it to round down to 5.96.

=FLOOR(A1,0.01)

where A1 holds the value

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Peo Sjoblom

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"Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4D9AF391-5765-4E8A-A94A-D527B42E8BC1@microsoft.com...
> Once I calcaulate a tax rate, if the end result is $5.968, it
> automatically
> rounds up when a final total is calculated. I do not want this to happen.
> I
> need it to round down to 5.96.

ROUNDDOWN(number,num_digits)

Number is any real number that you want rounded down.
Num_digits is the number of digits to which you want to round number.

Remark

· ROUNDDOWN behaves like ROUND, except that it always rounds a number down.
· If num_digits is greater than 0 (zero), then number is rounded down to the
specified number of decimal places.
· If num_digits is 0 or omitted, then number is rounded down to the nearest
integer.
· If num_digits is less than 0, then number is rounded down to the left of
the decimal point.

Examples

ROUNDDOWN(3.2, 0) equals 3

ROUNDDOWN(76.9,0) equals 76

ROUNDDOWN(3.14159, 3) equals 3.141

ROUNDDOWN(-3.14159, 1) equals -3.1

ROUNDDOWN(31415.92654, -2) equals 31,400
"Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4D9AF391-5765-4E8A-A94A-D527B42E8BC1@microsoft.com...
> Once I calcaulate a tax rate, if the end result is $5.968, it
> automatically
> rounds up when a final total is calculated. I do not want this to happen.
> I
> need it to round down to 5.96.

One more:

=TRUNC(A1,2)

Biff

"Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4D9AF391-5765-4E8A-A94A-D527B42E8BC1@microsoft.com...
> Once I calcaulate a tax rate, if the end result is $5.968, it
> automatically
> rounds up when a final total is calculated. I do not want this to happen.
> I
> need it to round down to 5.96.