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Hello,

First off, I am a total newbie with this kind of thing, I'm working on a simple menu ordering system based on an MS Form, Excel, 2 emails and a Sharepoint list which stores the final data.

So, the Customer completes the form, power automate gets the response details, adds a row into an Excel table, Excel calculates the order total which is then grabbed using Compose and passed to an e-mail.

After some faffing around I have it working except for one thing.... When I pass the order total figure to the e-mail which will be sent to the customer, the figure is being cut to one decimal place if it ends with a zero, for example 17.25 displays fine in the e-mail body, but 17.10 displays as 17.1.

How do I correct this and force 2 decimal places so that zeros are displayed? Am I missing something really obvious (probably)?

Thanks in advance for your responses

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Hi @Anonymous,

You could use a formatnumber function. With this you specify the format you want.

In your setup you could add this expression to the body:

formatNumber(float(outputs('Compose')?['Amount Total (Ex VAT)']), '0,0.00')

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Hi Expiscornovus, thank you thank you, that worked! Fantastic!

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Hi @Anonymous,

Btw, if you want to go a step further you could even use a currency format, like C2. This format will use two decimals and include the currency symbol as well 😁

formatNumber(float(outputs('Compose')?['Amount Total (Ex VAT)']), 'C2')

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Great I'll add that in, thanks again!

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