ACC2000: How to Round a Number Up or Down by a Desired Increment

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SUMMARY

This article shows you how to create a procedure that rounds a number up or down by a specified increment. For example, given the number 3.23, rounding to the nearest .05 results in the number 3.25. The procedure in this article accepts any positive rounding increment as a parameter. In addition to rounding numbers to the nearest fractional amount, you can also round to whole numbers, such as 1, 10, or 100.

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The following example creates a user-defined function called RoundToNearest, which accepts three parameters:
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ParameterValue
dblNumberThe numeric value you want to round
varRoundAmountThe increment to which dblNumber will be rounded
varUpAn optional argument: include to round up; omit to round down
For example:
  • RoundToNearest(3.33, 0.1, up) returns the value 3.4.
  • RoundToNearest(3.33, 0.1) returns the value 3.3.
  1. Create a module and type the following line in the Declarations section if it is not already there:
    Option Explicit
  2. Create the following procedure:
    Function RoundToNearest(dblNumber As Double, varRoundAmount As Double, _
   Optional varUp As Variant) As Double
            
   Dim dblTemp As Double
   Dim lngTemp As Long
      
   dblTemp = dblNumber / varRoundAmount
   lngTemp = Clng(dblTemp)
      
   If lngTemp = dblTemp Then
         RoundToNearest = dblNumber
   Else
      If IsMissing(varUp) Then
         ' round down
         dblTemp = lngTemp
      Else
         ' round up
         dblTemp = lngTemp + 1
      End If
      RoundToNearest = dblTemp * varRoundAmount
   End If
End Function
  3. To test this function, type each of the following lines in the Immediate window, and then press ENTER: 
    ?RoundToNearest(1.36, 0.25, up)
    Note that the procedure returns 1.5. 
    ?RoundToNearest(1.36, 0.25)
    Note that the procedure returns 1.25. 
    ?RoundToNearest(1.36, 0.75, up)
    Note that the procedure returns 1.5, which is two increments of 0.75.
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REFERENCES

For additional information about rounding, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
210564
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210564/EN-US/ )
ACC2000: Round or Truncate Currency Values to the Intended Number of Decimals
210423
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210423/EN-US/ )
ACC2000: Rounding Errors When You Use Floating-Point Numbers
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Article ID: 209996 - Last Review: October 11, 2006 - Revision: 2.2
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