Format Chart Numbers as Thousands or Millions

Recently I have been creating some comparison charts (prior year agains projections) and usually the numbers in my tables have been in a format which would suit. In this recent project though the data was in large whole numbers and I wanted to format this into a chart so it appeared as millions. In order to get from whole numbers to millions I had to work with the number format in what was a slightly unintuitive way and I hope by sharing this that I save you some time in the process.

Tags Chart, label, millions, thousands, Excel