Few days back, I have asked you to make a Christmas card in Excel (or any of your favorite festival’s card).
We got 6 entries for this contest. All the entries showed a lot of creativity to come up with beautiful cards using Excel.
Here are the entries.
Christmas Card in Excel Background – Gregory
Merry Christmas in multiple languages – Modeste
Christmas Advent Calendar – Modeste
Almost Magic – Vipin
Word Art Christmas Card – JP
Conditional Formatting on Christmas Tree – Mike
[Make sure you backup your work and personal macros files. One reader reported problems with this download. Download Excel File]
Who gets the prize?
Despite 6 entries, we have only 4 people in the contest. That is because Modeste submitted 2 entries and famous Mike Alexander said “I’m too rich and famous to enter, but I thought I’d take a shot at creating a Christmas card using Excel.”
It doesn’t seem Christmas-like to just give prizes to only 2 out of 4. So I decided to split prize money ($100) equally to all 4 contestants.
So Gregory, Vipin, Modeste & JP will get a $25 Amazon gift card from Chandoo.org.
Congratulations winners.
Another Bonus Christmas Download
Debra at Contextures recently published a fun Christmas Advent Calendar. Download and play with it to learn a few Excel tricks.
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.