In the 44th session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s talk about failures.
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In this podcast,
- Book announcement about Dashboards for Excel
- Story of my first ever dashboard
- Important lessons – Requirement Analysis for dashboards
- Resources for creating awesome dashboards
- Podcasts
- Books
- Courses
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Resources to make awesome dashboards
Podcast episodes:
- Create awesome dashboards with this 10 step process
- Make better charts by optimizing Data to Ink ratio
- Rules for making legendary column charts
Books on Dashboards:
- Information dashboard design by Stephen Few
- Non-designers design book by Robin Williams
- Dashboards for Excel by Jordan & Chandoo
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- Excel School + Dashboards – Online classes from Chandoo
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- Analyze data using simple & advanced formulas in Excel
- Structure & process large volumes of data quickly using tables & pivot tables
- Present information using charts, interactive & dynamic charts and complex charts
- Create dashboards using 8 in-depth tutorials & case studies
- Make gorgeous workbooks using conditional formatting, color & font choices and more
- Develop workbooks faster: using my favorite tricks and productivity hacks
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Help our community & me learn more by sharing your mistakes
It’s your turn. Share the mistakes you made during data analysis, dashboard preparation or automation projects. Let’s all learn from these and become stronger.
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.