Create ordinal number format in Excel

Anonymous
2010-08-09T14:55:38+00:00

Hello,

I am wondering if anyone knows (or knows of any resources that describe) how to create an ordinal number format in MS Excel.

I am well aware of how to reformat numbers as text to create the ordinal number effect, but what I would like to do is have the numberdisplay as an ordinal number (e.g., "1st", "2nd", "3rd", etc.) while still retaining its numeric value (1, 2, 3, etc.).

The reason for this request is to be able to perform numeric functions (e.g., MIN, MAX, AVERAGE, etc.) on an array of ordinal numbers.

I have a spreadsheet that lists various athletes' scores and the ranking for each score.  I would like to be able to easily determine, for example, each athlete's best ranking by using a MIN() function on the list of ordinal numbers.  Currently the only way I can think to do this is by having the rankings as regular cardinal numbers.

I suppose it would be possible to have an adjacent, hidden column with the numeric value of each ranking, but I thought it might be more elegant if there was a way to change the format of the number without changing its value.

Any help is much appreciated!

Regards,

Craig

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-02-03T14:57:16+00:00

    Suppose the number is X

    =IFERROR(CHOOSE(MIN(MOD(X*AND(X<>{13,12,11}),10),4),"st","nd","rd"),"th")

    Regards

    Brian

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-29T15:32:14+00:00

    Thanks Andreas

    Eureka!!  Thanks for that.  It works!

    Daleman9

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  3. Andreas Killer 144.1K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2014-06-29T08:47:05+00:00

    I had a list of 100 and that I had to select the first 10, the remainder are non-qualifiers. 

    the remainder should show blank.

    As all your formulas show the ordinals,  I take the shortest and improve it a little. This one shows only the ordinal numbers from 1 to 10:

    =IF(OR(A1<=0,A1>10),"",A1&MID("thstndrdth",MIN(9,2*RIGHT(A1)*(MOD(A1-11,100)>2)+1),2))

    Andreas.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-28T17:17:49+00:00

    Andreas

    Sorry, but in my original post I said that I had a list of 100 and that I had to select the first 10, the remainder are non-qualifiers.  My formula selects the top 10 but so far I'm unable to express those 10 in Ordinal mode without the other 90 showing "0th" - better that the remainder should show blank.  Hope this makes it clear and you can help.

    Daleman9

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  5. Andreas Killer 144.1K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2014-06-28T15:36:43+00:00

    suggested by Andreas, still give "0th" for the non-qualifiers

    It seems that I misunderstood something, what does "non-qualifiers" mean? (I'm from Germany, so some expressions are hard to understand.)

    Resp. what results do you want to have of the numbers from 0 to 20? Show it to me, then maybe I can give you a formula.

    Andreas.

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