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and change the format from English (United States)  to English (India)

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Alternatively in the same place, go to additional settings

Change the decimal grouping

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Alternatively in Excel, you can:
Press Ctrl 1 to go to formatting and choose custom formatting

And then custom format numbers to show commas after specific number of digits

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Suresh Sanjeev, works at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Quick and easy fix to show numbers in Indian format:

A custom number format of:

[>=10000000]##\,##\,##\,##0;[>=100000] ##\,##\,##0;##,##0

or

[>=10000000]"RS "##\,##\,##\,##0;[>=100000]"RS " ##\,##\,##0;"RS "##,##0

Will solve the problem.

A permanent solution to Indian Number Formats:

However there is better and more permanent solution using the Systems Regional
Settings

1. Goto the Control panel and select the “Region and Language” button

2. Select “Additional Settings”

3. Set digit groupings to the Indian grouping like this:

4. Do the same on the Currency Tab and Apply

Now in Excel the Default  “,” and “$” Style will show the way you wanted.
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Method 1:
Microsoft Excel 2013 and 2010 by default uses the system defined decimal
separator. In Windows 8 and Windows 7 this option is defined under the
Regional and Language Settings available under Control Panel. Following are
the steps to be followed:

Step 1: Right click on the bottom end corner of Window 8 system and select Control
Panel from the menu list (In Windows 7, navigate to Control Panel).

Step 2: In Adjust your computer’s settings screen, click Clock, Language and Region
option.

Step 3: In Clock, Language and Region screen, click Change date, time or number
formats under Region section.

Step 4: Click the Additional settings button in the Region window.

Step 5: In Customize Format window, enter the new separator for Decimal Symbol.
Then click Apply and Ok button to save the changes.

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Method 2:
Excel also provides users can customize the separator used for Decimals and
Thousands using Excel Options. Listed below are the steps to change decimal
separator in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010.

Step 1: Click File menu and select Options from the menu list.

Step 2: In the Options screen, click the Advanced tab and navigate to Editing section.

Step 3: Under Editing section, un mark the check box with caption as “User system
separators”.

Step 4: Now enter your new decimal separator under Decimal separator field. For this
demo we are colon (:) as the decimal separator.

Step 5: Click OK to confirm and save the changes.

This tutorial may also help for Excel 2013:

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