How to round up to the nearest 5 or 10
✓ Verified in LibreOffice 25.8.7.3 ✓ Verified in Google Sheets (2026-08-30)Push values up to clean steps — pricing, order quantities, capacity planning.
The formula
| App | Formula | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Excel (desktop) | =CEILING(A2,5) | Always rounds UP to a multiple of 5. FLOOR rounds down; MROUND rounds to nearest. |
| Google Sheets | =CEILING(A2,5) | Identical. |
| LibreOffice Calc | =CEILING(A2,5) | Identical. |
How it works
CEILING(23,5) climbs to the next multiple of 5 → 25; CEILING(23,10) gives 30. FLOOR is the mirror (down to 20), and MROUND goes to whichever multiple is closer. The trio also powers price psychology: =CEILING(A2,5)-0.01 turns 23 into 24.99. Exact multiples stay put — CEILING(25,5) is 25. For negative numbers prefer CEILING.MATH (Excel/LO), which defines the direction explicitly; classic CEILING errors on mixed signs in older Excel.
Verified, not just documented
We ran =CEILING(A2,5) in LibreOffice 25.8.7.3 (headless, with forced recalculation) and it returned 25 — exactly the expected result. We then ran the same formulas in Google Sheets, executed 2026-08-30: a formula-only workbook goes into Google Drive, which converts it to a Sheet and recalculates every formula with Google’s own engine, and comes back out as .xlsx carrying the values Google computed. It returned 25 for the worked example, the same value LibreOffice produced. Both engines’ numbers on this page are executed results. The Excel formula follows Microsoft’s official documented syntax — we do not run desktop Excel.
Functions used
CEILING — see full Excel, Google Sheets & LibreOffice compatibility for each.