- I have been reading Investment Biker, Freakonomics and No Comebacks. The last one by Frederick Fosyth, a short story collection. Investment Biker is a good books if you like travelogues, biking and investing in any order.
I have seen a ton of good movies recently including Blood Diamond, American History X and Schindler’s List. I am actually cursing myself for not watching both AHx and Speilberg’s classic till now. They have been lying in my HDD for almost 2 years now and finally I had the courage to double click on them last weekend (last night). AHx made sure that Edward Norton along with Ewan McGregor and DiCaprio will nicely fit the gap that earlier generation of brilliant actors like Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman left. - Most of my free time after office is spent with cooking or reading or browsing. I think my A75 is dusting, may be this month you will see some purnography after all those korean photos.
- We have booked an Activa last week. We are naming it “Manmadhudu”, after a popular telugu movie starring Nagarjuna. No specific reason. Temporarily I am shelving my thoughts of acquiring an Avenger. A 2-wheeler for everyone in the family is our priority now 🙂
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11 Responses to “Fix Incorrect Percentages with this Paste-Special Trick”
I've just taught yesterday to a colleague of mine how to convert amounts in local currency into another by pasting special the ROE.
great thing to know !!!
Chandoo - this is such a great trick and helps save time. If you don't use this shortcut, you have to take can create a formula where =(ref cell /100), copy that all the way down, covert it to a percentage and then copy/paste values to the original column. This does it all much faster. Nice job!
I was just asking peers yesterday if anyone know if an easy way to do this, I've been editing each cell and adding a % manually vs setting the cell to Percentage for months and just finally reached my wits end. What perfect timing! Thanks, great tip!
If it's just appearance you care about, another alternative is to use this custom number format:
0"%"
By adding the percent sign in quotes, it gets treated as text and won't do what you warned about here: "You can not just format the cells to % format either, excel shows 23 as 2300% then."
Dear Jon S. You are the reason I love the internet. 3 year old comments making my life easier.
Thank you.
Here is a quicker protocol.
Enter 10000% into the extra cell, copy this cell, select the range you need to convert to percentages, and use paste special > divide. Since the Paste > All option is selected, it not only divides by 10000% (i.e. 100), it also applies the % format to the cells being pasted on.
@Martin: That is another very good use of Divide / Multiply operations.
@Tony, @Jody: Thank you 🙂
@Jon S: Good one...
@Jon... now why didnt I think of that.. Excellent
Thank You so much. it is really helped me.
Big help...Thanks
Thanks. That really saved me a lot of time!
Is Show Formulas is turned on in the Formula Ribbon, it will stay in decimal form until that is turned off. Drove me batty for an hour until I just figured it out.