Byte formatting for Google Sheets

Byte Formatting for Google Sheets.md

Custom format for displaying bytes as kb, mb, gb or tb.

Response to a few places on the internet: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/x_T_N-yRUYg And here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1533811/how-can-i-format-bytes-a-cell-in-excel-as-kb-mb-gb-etc

Here is one that I have been using:

[<1000000]0.00," KB";[<1000000000]0.00,," MB";0.00,,," GB"

Created a better one based on IF ELSE ladder.
The cell this will format is F3

=IF(F3<(1024), F3 & " B", IF(F3<(1024*1024), QUOTIENT(F3,1024) & " KB", IF(F3<(1024*1024*1024), QUOTIENT(F3,(1024*1024)) & " MB", IF(F3<(1024*1024*1024*1024), QUOTIENT(F3,(1024*1024*1024)) & " GB", IF(F3<(1024*1024*1024*1024*1024), QUOTIENT(F3,(1024*1024*1024*1024)) & " TB", "H")))))

kaustubhcs that works as a formula, and is nice for using actual binary bytes, but there's advantages to using a custom number format instead of a formula! (no secondary cell, copied values are still the original byte count, etc).

Google's very sparse docs on number formats: https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/guides/formats#meta_instructions

Helped me out a lot. Thank you! :)

Is what I was looking for, thank you!

Thank you so much for this, It made my life so much easier!!

Thank you very much!

This is very useful! I can only get it to format 3 options, so if you want the MB/GB/TB version instead of the KB/MB/GB version, this looks like it works:

[<1000000000]0.00,," MB";[<1000000000000]0.00,,," GB";0.00,,,," TB"

Nice work, OP. Thanks 🌟

Many thanks.

Thank you this helped a lot.

Exactly what I was looking for. Works like a charm. Thank you!

I solved this for nicely formatted binary bytes. Assuming you have raw bytes in field F4, use the formula below to multiply each value by the correct number of 1000/1024, and then use the suggested number format to display it as MB/GB/TB. No If statement needed. If you need to do math on it, just use the raw bytes that you started with, not after the 1000/1024 conversion.

=F4*10^(3*floor(log(F4,2)/10))/2^(10*floor(log(F4,2)/10))
[<1000000000]##0.00,," MB";[<1000000000000]##0.00,,," GB";##0.00,,,," TB"

Here's the number formatting guide: https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/guides/formats

super useful!

Briliant!