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In this tutorial, you will lean a quick way to calculate percentages in Excel, find the basic percentage formula and a few more formulas for calculating percentage increase, percent of total and more. Continue reading →

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  1. hello Sir,
    Good Morning

    can u give me solution about this
    Amount 5400/- = - 40% + 12% + 18% = 4282/-? What is the formula ?

  2. I found this tutorial helpful, but can someone get a certificate from you?

  3. Dear sir my question is how to give to employees bonus for different each and other suppose 10000 = 10% , 20000=15% like

  4. I'm trying to create a template for return rate percentages... it would need to list date of orders, PO#s so everything is separated by order - the fun part is then getting this to calculate the percentage of product returned from each vendor

    basic template would show Customer A bought 12 apples and returned 5
    but it would have to calculate both columns to give a total amount of returns as I continue to list purchases and returns... Help. IF I need to clarify more please let me know. Thank you!

  5. Please
    Sir I forget the formula of finding percentage
    in excel

    1. (Obtained Marks/Total Marks)*100

    2. C1=A1/B1 format C1 as percentage.

  6. Hi,
    What is the formula of raw score/no.items * 5 in excel?

  7. give the prasantage fromula

  8. how would you get the percentage sales comparing last month and this month sales. Example:

    last month - May 2018 - $1,293.00
    this month - Jun 2018 - $2,390.00

  9. How do I calculate the percentage spent so far. I know the whole amount is $500,000 (column A = line items budgeted). Column B = amount spent out of all budgeted items (not all budgeted items have been purchased, so am looking for a running total as I add in amounts spent each day). Thank you.

  10. I have a simple formula: 4688.8306 * 4% = 4876.3838

    When I check my work with: 4688.8306/4876.3838, I get 3.8462%

    Why are they different?

    1. Anna:
      When I multiply 4688.8306 * .04 I get 187.55.
      When I divide 187.55 by 4688.8306 I get .04.
      Are there some other numbers that aren't visible in the formulas?

  11. please help me to know to calculate in all excel formulas

  12. how to calculate deficit in percentage
    example:
    april,may,june and target for these months is 65%

    i have the data of april and may, so I need to calculate deficit percentage using these two months data which means how much more I need to get to cover up the target %

  13. hai i want a formula for how to compare one sentence to multiple rows for example

    1. ram is a good boy - 100% i want to compare this sentence to other rows
    2. good boy is a ram - 100% same words but sentence formation diff but words are same thats y 100 % .
    3. ram is a boy - 80% here no good so 80% ,
    4. ram is a good boy than others - 120% because sentence extra ,

    like this i want to compare 1 state that how much matches with other statement for finding duplications. please send a mail to me how to find that one.

  14. I'm trying to caculate the percentage of but 3 words
    Open
    Closed
    Ongoing

    I need the percentage of the closed and ongoing to be collective to make up the done.
    Can anyone assist please?

    1. Amelia:
      Sum the numbers in the Open column, then sum the numbers in the closed column, then sum the numbers in the ongoing column.
      Add the closed value to the ongoing value then divide the value of the open column by this total.

  15. this is not right. I have found the right thread. Thank you
    =((866.5+60)-(866.5+60)*1%) 917.235

  16. plz can u give me solution about this
    =866.50+60 *1% answer is 917.235

    1. Viny:
      When I enter this: =(866.5+60)*0.01, Excel returns 9.265.
      Is there something else that should be entered in the formula?

  17. I am trying to equate the percentage of each employees work load by the total workload for all. I want to calculate individual workload by total workload for all. For instance in Cell F2 I have 66 and the total overall in cell F9 is 500. If you could please give advise I would greatly appreciate it. thank you so much

    1. Divide the individual by the total like this:
      For example in G2 enter =F2/F9
      then format G2 as percentage in the Format Cell window.

  18. I want the output as 1:2 in excel for 100000 vs 200000

    how to work out this(100000 vs 200000) in Excel

    For example current asset ratio calculation.

  19. thanku so much

  20. can u give me solution about this
    =(130-80)*8+800+6.45*50 calculate total amt less 10% and show last amt 1370
    thanks

    1. Viny:
      Here's a solution that shows you all the steps.
      =((130-80)*8+(800+6.45*50))-(((130-80)*8+(800+6.45*50))*0.1)
      BYI, this returns 1370.25.

      You could substitute cell addresses for some of these hard coded numbers and make this a little more flexible.

  21. can u give me solution about this
    =(130-80)*8+800+6.45*50 calculate total amt less 10% and show last amt 1370

  22. I want know this

    value is 3410
    after percentage = 1747.68
    so want what is percentage in this value

    1. 1747.68/3410

  23. Thank you so much.. its very useful. Thumbs'up.

  24. I've created a spreadsheet that shows how often a report is printed vs when it's not my cells are populated by "yes" and "no". I would like to calculate the total percentage of "yes" in each column. How do I create a formula that can calculate how often the word "yes" appears in each column?

  25. I am trying to add a number to a percentage formula. My current formula is: O143+O143*Q143, which equates to a number in "O143" multiplied by a percentage in "Q143". After that is calculated, I want to add a number that is not affected by the percentage to the total in the first equation. For example, the number in O143 is $5,999.58 and the percentage in Q143 is 3%. The number to add, $75.64, is in N143. I have tried doing "+N143" but that does not give me the correct total. The total should come out to be: $6,255.21. Please provide help to this formula to come to the correct total.

    1. The equation should be =(O143*Q143)+(N143+O143)

  26. I want to see the % increase in excel from Value A to Value B
    Value A = 0
    Value B = 455

    Formula Applied (B-A)/A, but it gives #DIV/0. Can I get the % in results instead?

    1. The Microsoft Excel Help site has a good explanation of working with this situation. Search "How to correct a #DIV/0! error" and you'll see the work a-rounds.

  27. Hello

    I would like a formula to show total less %
    ie Column A $100 column B to show $12.00 (12% of 100)
    When I put in formula it shows % (8800%) not total dollars.
    formula used =A1*(1-12%)

    Thank you for your help.

  28. find the excel formular for total,average and percentage. pls help me out sir god bless you.

  29. Hi, I have 5 people submitting their ranking for 24 topics. How do I take all of the data and sort to show which topic is the most important to least important of all 24? I can add each row, and then sort high to low.... is there another way to show percentage wise?

  30. How to calculate :

    QUANTITY UNIT PER PRICE TOTAL PRICE
    120UNIT 88
    105 METRE 110
    85 TEA CUP 5
    100 PATIENTS 150

  31. Given time period nd workers how to calculate percent ???

  32. Time members percent
    12-2.59Am 188 ??

  33. SIR I REQUEST TO SOLVE MY PROBLEM. MY PROBLEM IS TO WRIT (50 SET) IN SINGLE CELL AND I WANT TO MULTIPLY BY 5 BUT ITS SHOW ERROR

  34. Avail From A From B Utilization
    17 5 1 ?%

    I have a muliti sheet spreed sheet, calculating utilisation of seats in a vehicle. In the example above, there are 17 seats available. The vehicle stops twice and collects 5 pax from staop A and 1 pax from stop B.

    What is the formula for calculating the percentage utilisation.
    Many thanks

  35. kindly help me solve the following

    original price: $421.95
    discounted price: $359.96

    savings: $61.99

    in terms of percentage, how many percent was saved? Please show me the formula

    Thanks

  36. hello, i need a help,
    how to calculate the precentage between two invoice

  37. 100% = 70% of A and 30% of B. then how to calculate the 120% of A and 70% of B

    A=54
    B=201

  38. if a 54=70% then what is 90% of 54?

  39. example:In a department there are 10 employees ,total number of leaves taken by them is 25 how to calculate leave % of that department

  40. " if a1=apple and b1= india so c1= count 1 " please put the formula

  41. easy to learning and elaborative.. thanks.

  42. Poster's, Don't forget to say please and thank you.
    These people are trying to help you with your problems.

  43. Dear Sir,

    Can you adv us, how can i apply percantage on all sheet only one colume

    suppose i had the rate sheet & i want to added 5% on all sheet that what i do

    thank

  44. Dear sir,
    hope your are fine, kindly solve my this problem i want to take 50 percentage of 37800 in other column in excel sheet. how i can do this.

    God Bless you.
    Regards
    Atif Durrani

    1. Hello,

      If I understand your task correctly, please try the following formula:

      =A1*50%

      Where cell A1 is “37800”

      Hope this will help.

  45. Cell
    A. B. C
    150. A.ke1to100ke5%.
    A.ke baki
    Bache 101> ke 10%

  46. I want to get this formula
    Cell A ki 1to100 Tak ki 5% Kya hota hai

  47. I have an Annual Budget of $1,450,00, I need to insert formulas that will calculate total amount for each department based on the specified percentage of the annual budget

    1. Hello,

      If I understand your task correctly, please try the following formula:

      =A1*25%

      where cell A1 is “$1,450,00”

      Hope this will help you!

  48. I have a simple issue that I don't know how to do since I am not a financial person.
    Cell A I have amount to receive from my clients, Cell B I have to pay the money to get the job/product. I need cell C to show what percent I have made out of it. Hope you understand. Thank you in advance. TC

    1. Hello,

      If I understand your task correctly, please try the following formula:

      =(A1-B1)/100

      Hope this will help you!

  49. If we want to increase or decrease percentage, suppose a-b/a*100%, If a is zero than what will happen.

  50. How to calculate the % of specific text in Excel:

    For example:

    Orange
    Orange
    Red
    Blue
    Blue
    Blue
    Red
    Red
    Orange
    Orange

    What is the %'of red, blue and Orange? How to come up with a formula in Excel?

    1. Hello,

      Supposing you have a list of text data in column A, you can use the following formulas:

      =COUNTIF(A:A,"Orange")/COUNTIF(A:A,"<>")

      =COUNTIF(A:A,"Red")/COUNTIF(A:A,"<>")

      =COUNTIF(A:A,"Blue")/COUNTIF(A:A,"<>")

      Hope it will help you.

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