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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. I know it must be me but I have spent literally hours trying to find the answer to my percentage problem and have all but given up. It can't be that difficult.
    i have a register of students with for example 111101110 showing an individual's attendance and absence. What is the formula I need to use to show the % he/she attended - this is just so frustrating. Let's assume the register shows the marks in row D.

    1. Hello Derek,

      Is my understanding correct that for each student you have 1's and 0's in separate cells in the same row? If so, you can use the following formula to calculate the percentage of 1's in row 2, columns B to E:
      =COUNTIF(B2:E2, 1)/COUNTIF(B2:E2, "<>"&"")

      If your register is organized differently, please provide the details.

  2. You are the owner of the on‐line computer and accessories store called Super Star. Daily you get
    details of transactions for that day in the evenings. You have a discount policy that all orders above
    Rs.5,000 get 5% discount and those that are above Rs.10,000 get 10% discount. The Super Star Club
    Members get 15% discount on all orders plus standard discount if their orders are above Rs5,000 or
    Rs10,00

  3. Hey,

    Can anybody help me to calculate below formula in excel.

    =100-(10*5)*10%

    Please answer me
    Thanks

  4. The fees is $1750,$1750,$1900,$1900,$2050 so please help me how to get the building donation using formula 10% of fees

  5. hello, i have vehicles on my site for any given time but i must have them completed and returned within 8 hours ( 480 minutes )

    i want the 480 minutes to be 100% and need to calculate how long one is on site.

    ie,
    one is here 480 mintues =100%
    one is here 240 minutes =50%
    one is here 720 minutes =150%

    Do you know how i would do the formular?

    Thanks

  6. The projected revenue for Jan, Feb and Mar are $1000, $2000, and $2500 respectively. The projected expenses as a percentage of revenue for each month are: Rent = 25%, Operating Expenses = 35%, Administrative expenses = 10% and Miscellaneous expenses = 8.5%. Create a projected Income Statement and formatted it so it looks good

    Month Rev Rent Operating Expense Admin Expenses Misc. Expenses Total Expenses Net Income
    Jan $1,000.00
    Feb $2,000.00
    Mar $2,500.00

    Rent Operating Expense Admin Expenses Misc. Expenses
    25.00% 35.00% 10.00% 8.50%

    1. how do I find a formula for the pecentage

  7. For example
    Coloum A
    25
    10
    10
    5
    20
    30
    Down in total i want 100%, Above in breakup
    Hlp me in Formula

  8. BRA 1106 430466
    JFH 2245 473809
    MENS PREMIUM 3120 698216
    MODERN CLASSIC 1868 464180
    SOCKS 795 102146
    SPORTS 3479 1437586
    TOWELS 209 35307
    Total 12910 3669494

    How do i remove Contribution percantage wise ???

  9. if 80%-99.9% of the target will get 75RS, >=100%-120% rs.150, and >=120% will get 200, how to calculate in excel.

  10. Hi Need some help. I have a decimal .086 that is equal to 100% or $400.00.

    Now an excel spreadsheet wish to work out (don't know if one can use the if command) I need to calculate the dollar amount at say 65% of .086 returning a $ amount.

  11. I want % formula

  12. Hi, I need some help. Looking to do a monthly spreadsheet that would have daily answers as yes or no. We then want a percentage of time the answer is yes. I am not sure how to do this. Are you able to assist? I appreciate your help.

  13. I need some assistance.
    I have revenue, but discounted by a percentage, but then that value is discounted as well.

    Example; Revnue ($10,000) chance in receiving project 25% and then if that project is awarded we may have 75% of that work.

    How would I create a formula?

    Thank you

  14. i need a small help.
    can u pls telll me how to create a formula so that,
    after adding between to box in a row, even if the answer is more than 100,the result displayed inthe total box should be only 100.
    that means the total value should not be shown more than 100.

    for eg:
    65+55=120, but in the total value box it should be only 100.
    thankyou,

    1. Hi Mathew,

      You can use the following approach: =IF(SUM()>100, 100, SUM())

      For example: =IF(SUM(A1:C1)>100, 100, SUM(A1:C1))

  15. Hi Svetlana,

    You are doing a good job. God Bless you.

    I want to ask you one question.

    I want to calculate 50%+20% Discount from the MRP.

    For Example = MRP is Rs. 100. if i will give discount 50% then the value will be 50 and again 20% then final value would be 40. Total % of discount is 60%. I have mentioned MRP, First Discount and Second Discount. Now i want to calculate the final value after deduction of discount. Kindly help me. What would be the formula.

    Thanks in Advance

    Best
    Rahul Thakur

  16. Hi,

    I have to calculate the Lost Time Incident Frequency Rate of past year lost time accidents with current year. LTIFR formula is lost time incidents* 200000/total man-hours worked. The LTIFR for 2015 is 1.30 and 2016 is 4.35 until month of June. Now i want calculate it in percentage and compare 2015 data with 2016. I want to find how much in percentage is raised from last year.

    please help me...

  17. I need to create an excel spreadsheet where I take percentages from Saturday - Friday and have them total out in the last column. How do you do that?

  18. Hi how are you...Come to the point...Me working in Hospital as a insurance claims Accountant..i just want to get some help from..as per health insurance policy a patient have to pay 20% money till 100 sar....whatever he will get 1000 sar or 30 sar services but he just payed 20 % till 100 sar...when i am working in excel...is it possible i can count in excel with formula...when any patient will get services he will pay 20% till 100 sar...i want to calculate in my excel..plz give me help on this

  19. Hi I have a spreadsheet that I pre-enter a monthly percentage in. I would like to have a running cumulative percentage calculated after each month is entered. For example, January the percentage is 15% so the cumulative for that month would be 15%. I need to know how to calculate the cumulative percentage once I had February and so forth.

  20. Hi, Let say 49.90-20% = 39.92

    How to set this on excel.

    Thank you

    1. Hi Alice,

      In Excel, you can calculate it like this:
      =49.9-(49.9*0.2)

      1. thanks, this helped me too

  21. Hi. Im trying to add a cell from O2:O2160. How can I can get the answer. Its all in percentage. Thanks

  22. what is the formula of total sale profit percentage,
    if sale is 40,000.and cost is 35000,how much will be total profit in percentage.

  23. hi dear user
    hope you will be fine and happy
    i have one account that i got one thing 110 USD and sold on 200 USD how percentage will be my profit
    please show in formula
    Example: qty name purchase price sale price profit in percentage
    2 potato 111 200 how much will be
    wish you solve my problem and send me excel spread sheet

    1. Item name Qty Sale Price Total Purchase price profit Total Profit Percentage in profit
      Printer 2 200 400 300 100 200 How much will be
      Key board 3 150 450 260 110 330 ×

  24. please help me to solve this functions an formulas,im writing a test on Saturday,

    if tax code is 1 then salary is 5% of sales made(20000)if tax code is 2 then salary is 10% of sales made(10000)

    thank u

  25. If I copy formula for percentage in a new cell for e.g B1/A1 and cell A1 and B1 are empty in same case the result is #DIV/0!. How can make that this result bi hiden untill I put number at cells A1 and B1. Thanks.

    I find

  26. If I copy formula for percentage in a new cell for e.g B1/A1 and cell A1 and B1 are empty in same case the result is #DIV/0!. How can make that this result bi hiden untill I put number at cells A1 and B1. Thanks

    1. Hi Arben,

      You can embed the percentage formula inside the IF function like this:
      =IF(AND(A1<>0, B1<>0), B1/A1,"")

  27. hi,
    i have a prize fund of £800 (but this may change weekly) how do i work out on excel how to split the fund into prizes of 40% 20% 10% etc

    1. Hi Kev,

      Supposing you have the prize fund in A1. Then, you can calculate the desired percentages using a few simple formulas similar to this: =A1*40%

      Or, you can enter the percentages in a few cells, say B1, C1, and D1, and then calculate the amounts by multiplying the total fund by percentage, e.g. =$A$1*B1

      If you opt for the second way, then you can check if the specified percentages add up to 100% using this formula:

      =IF(SUM(B1:D1)=100%, "OK", "parts do not add up to 100%")

      Where B1:D1 are cells where you've entered the percentages.

  28. Good afternoon,

    Thanks in advance for reading my question.

    I followed instructions on this site on how to ad formulas for,
    Cost Price, Percent, Sales Prices.
    So lets say the item cost Price is $200 in the second column I ad how much % to ad to the price, And the third column is sales Price.
    So I did =C14*D14
    (That's where it starts since I'm using a template.)

    I also want to add a column for Profit, And the total below cost price and the total below Sales, And below profit.

    If possible please. If its to much. The info above will be very appreciated.
    Also, If anyone can please lead me to straight forward info on how to,
    Add the asterisk to all my item numbers that I made up so I could create bar code labels and then scan it.

    Also,
    Is it very complicated to ad customer info, maybe link to a form page that will keep track who I sold what?

    I thank you all in advance.
    Jack

  29. Dear all,

    I have used, trik for percentage just like =30/210% then output is correct but my question is how to gate a accurate percentage value with "%" percentage samble just like 14.29%??

    Regards,
    Sandeep

  30. How can i take below value

    100%+
    100%+
    70-99%
    100%+
    100%+
    0-9%
    100%+
    100%+
    100%+
    100%+

  31. Hi,

    Ok...so i'm trying to calculate the efficency in real time.
    If i start working at 7 AM and normaly I work until 15 PM
    At 12 o'clock it should show me the efficeny until thata hour, if i stop working at 12 o'clock as the time passes to 15 PM my efficency should deacreas.

    I just cant find the right formula for this eff calculation.

    Some ideas please?

    Thanks!

  32. Hello,
    I would like to make a calculator that I can use to work out a percentage of a running amount,
    It is for use on horse racing,
    It would need to be able to add / subtract an amount from the first amount buy clicking won / lost
    Example
    £500.00 starting bank 10% for the next bet = £50.00
    If it won the profit would be added to the running bank
    £50.00 on a 2/1 horse = £100.00 profit = £600.00 new running bank
    If it lost I would need it to remove the £50.00 stake from the £500.00 bank = £450.00
    Is this possible
    Done this formula using a basic spreed sheet but need to have it as a continuous column or manually change the amounts of monies as it goes up & down,
    I have a program that works this way but not using a percentage system,
    Thank you
    Dean
    I

  33. How to calculate or make a formula for calculation of tax in a one cell of excel sheet. example-
    total Value - 100.00
    Discount - 7% - 7.00
    Sub-Total - 93.00
    CST @ 2% - 1.86
    Total - 94.86

    i wand this calculation in formula basis to put into a cell.

  34. total number ×100 then about how many we gain divide it and we get total percentage

  35. Hi,
    I have trouble with 3 questions.
    Given:
    Bank|$ |% | SD | FD |
    A |1,000 |5% |1 Jan |25 Feb|
    B |10,000|10%|15 Jan|13 Sep|
    [1]
    [1]What is the total percentage (using excel formula)
    [2]How much percent will it be up to 30 Jan (using excel formula)
    [3]What date will it be when the percentage reaches 50% (using excel formula)

    Please help

  36. Hi,
    I am trying to calculate the (Percentage Spent), when budgeted cost and actual cost have been calculated. However, there happens that the value of budgeted cost maybe 0.
    May I ask how am I going to do for the following:
    1. Percentage Cost
    2. Excel does not allow a division with any value = 0

  37. Hi, I need to calculate the following:
    Column 1: 38/46
    Column 2: 48/53
    Column 3: 103/152.
    Like 38 students of 58 have paid the fees. It is mentioned in a single column. How do i calculate?

  38. Hi,

    I am trying to calculate charges fairly based on percentages. The percentages are with 2 decimal places (7.93% as an example) My percentages equal 100% and I have a fixed total of £300.00.

    When completing the formula (fixed total * the percentage) when all completed the amounts are slightly off only by a few pence however. I seem to recall that you can highlight the percentages or the figures, and almost round them up or down? It is important that the percentages total 100% and that there is a fair split on all amounts generated.

  39. i want to find out 5% of 7000 for this what will be the formula of percent.

  40. Hi
    I have a data in one cell say A1 is 25
    My Requirement is
    1. To calculate the value whether it is less than 20
    2. the value is greater than 20 but less than 50
    3. the value is greater than 50 but less than 80
    4. Greater than 80
    Thanks
    Venkat

  41. =(select total/no of subject) press ENTER
    ans is percentage

  42. I'm in a new job, still learning Excel, but was given the task of creating a spreadsheet for the following:

    • TOTAL SCORE of the Pain Outcome Questionnaire – looking for the formula to calculate % of decrease in the score
    • Score of question #1 on the POQ- formula should track percent of decrease in the score
    • Score of questions 2-20 on the POQ- formula should track percent of decrease in the score
    • Current MEDD (Opioid Usage) – formula should track percent of decrease in the number.

    Just looking a starting point.

  43. How could I make a formula to calculate increase and decrease in percentage with different base.

    Example:
    To Calculate Selling Price: $120 x 11% VAT (1.11) x 20% (Margin)(1.2) = $159.84

    To calculate backwards: $159.84 / 11% VAT (0.89) / 20% (Margin)(0.8) = $113.81

    The cost price is different in this calculation, the actual cost price is $120, not $113.81. May I know how to get a right formula to calculate the cost?

  44. I want to calculate how much percentage per person will be paid from the total amount of 847.6, total pax is 16 for 31 days

  45. can i have percentage formula for 3years calculating for net profit

  46. Hi, i want to calculate overall percentage of several percentages. Lets suppose we sold stock at different prices so each sale will give us different profit percentage. Suppose there are 5 sales transactions and only percentages are given (say 8%, 13%, 21%, 17%, 35%) then what is overall percentage.

    Regards.

  47. Thank you

  48. I need help with a formula that would take weekly percentages: [88.5%, 92.5%, 100%, 97.5%]and calculate these values to arrive at a % that would not be an average return. I need to accurately display the variances that appear by week. I hope I explained that well.

  49. Hi
    When i calculate the percentage the value shown in excel calculation is lesser than the same value calculated in calculator
    For Example
    1)Excel calculation ((0.0262-0.0245)/0.0245)*100 = 6.8%
    2)In calculator ((0.0262-0.0245)/0.0245)*100 = 6.9%

    And also how to create an if condition for the below mentioned condition

    if the value is 5 test is fail

  50. Hi, I want to be able to return a date in excel. I want to be able to advise on a start date and then input a percentage and for that percentage to advise of the date. for example start date is 01/01/2016 and I want to be able to input 59% for it to advise of a date. In this case its 02/08/16.

    Thanks

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