: One question  in Access (2003).
:
: I need to accomplish this "rounding" task in MS Access 2003
:
: 1) If it is 10.000001 it should be 11
: 2) If it is 10.999999 it should be 11 too.
:
: In other words, I just need the exact functionality of the CEILING()
: function  thats available in MS Excel.

I am not familiar with the Access, but I have run into a similar
problem in computer languages which do not offer a ceiling function.
Try something like this. "int" is the integer function available in
most languages. (I didn't test this on negative numbers.)


' Ceiling
If number > int(number) Then number = int(number) + 1

I thing function  INT() can help you.

**********
Dim b As Double
Dim i As Integer
b = 10.000001
i = Int(b)

If i = b Then
i = i +1
End If
*********

The simplest version I think would be:



Public function  Ceiling(ByVal X As Double) As Double

Ceiling = Int(X) - (X - Int(X) > 0)

End Function



Watch out for negative numbers, as David Smart suggested. This function
would round them up.

Plenty of hits with a Google search. This one for instance ...

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=5031

A lot depends on just how accurately you want to simulate Excel's Ceiling.
It takes two parameters, and they must both be of the same sign, and it
rounds away from zero (i.e. negative numbers become more negative).