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Percentage difference error

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    Percentage difference error

    Hi all, I think this should be straight forward but just cannot get my head around it. I am using the formula to calculate a change in percentage which seems to work fine except in one instance where the result should be around 500% increase is showing only 84%. The attached example shows this for category A. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction!

    Much appreciated
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    Re: Percentage difference error

    E3 should be =D3/C3 - 1

    Copy down.
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    Re: Percentage difference error

    You should be dividing by column C, not column D to get a percentage.

    This would make the percentage increase for the first row 480%, which sounds closer to what you're after.

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    Re: Percentage difference error

    Thanks guys. Spot on.

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