Missus arrived
Missus on bench
Missus bored at hotel
Missus asked for some immediate lap love (not the baby kind 😉 )
Missus nagged
Missus ORDERED!
I had to obey now, the choice was between Dell XPS 1530 and one of the Macs. A quick check at the bank balances revealed that I forgot my online password. But it also revealed that we could either afford macbook pro or food for the next several weeks. So the choice narrowed to Dell xps kind and the Macbook. Well, it wasnt much of a choice, we werent rooting for windows support or anything like that. Our needs are simple, watch movies, listen to songs, check mail, surf internet, manage photos and have tons of fun. So Macbook it is.
We have ordered the macbook. Since my desktop in India is called Madhu [know more – madhu the crash madhu2.0], we are going to call this one as Shimla, its the most romantic place on earth – for us. And yeah for the still looking, shimla is a hill station in northern India.
We are so excited about Shimla!!! I have added a tracker on the top of this blog, live updates about the order and shipment. Will post photos once we get it. Feel free to share our happiness.
Oh yeah, for the curious, the config is macbook white, 2.0 ghz, intel core2 duo, 2 gb ddr2 ram, 80 gb SATA, 24x CD RW / DVD. Also, the image is copyrighted to Apple.com.
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.