Excel Percentage help pls-Solved
Can someone help why this doesn't work? I want the result to show the percent of change
but it keeps showing the formula in the cell where the percent needs to be. New $175. is in cell E28 and Old $160.00 is in cell e29. The result is formatted to be percentage
$175.00 =((E28-E29)/E29)*100
$160.00
Solution: As Wayne pointed out a possibility to me, I did accidentally have a space before the formula in the result cell
Last edited by LadyLee; 12-05-2023 at 04:22 PM. Reason: solved
should work OK
BUT have you a space or anything in front of the formula ?
see e1
may need to see the sheet itself
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Last edited by etaf; 12-05-2023 at 02:49 PM.
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Originally Posted by shg
If it is showing the formula rather than the result, it could be for a number of reasons.
1. The cell is formatted as text
2. There is a leading space before the formula
3. There is a single quote before the formula
4. It could be set in Options to display formulae instead of values
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Perfect, I thank you. I did indeed have a space and did not realize it. The next thing that puzzled me was the result showing so large. I ended up multiplying only by "1" so I did not have so many numbers in the percentage result. My fixed formula shows like this =((E31-E30)/E30)*1 in order for me to see this 11.5%
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thanks for the boost
If you format as a percentage, you don't need to multiply by 100. So, in reality, you don't need to multiply by 1 either.
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