I don’t remember when was the last time both of us (Jo and I) were this excited. And the reason?
Nakshatra and Nishanth have started taking their first steps last week !!!
It is such a joy watching them take one step at a time. Aah, the beauty of parenting 🙂
So I asked myself, “What is a good way to celebrate this without looking like a super-excited dad?” and I got my answer in 72 milli-seconds.
I have created 10 short (<10 min) videos helping you to take baby steps in Excel world. Each video introduces you to one new functionality of Excel and shows you some nice examples.
Before jumping straight in to the videos, I want to share a short clip (30 seconds) of our kids taking their baby steps.
[Watch the video clip on Chandoo.org]
Look at them, although, they are scared and probably worried, they look so happy extending the leg in to unknown. If only we kept that curiosity until we get really old…,
The Excel Tutorials:
I have neatly structured all the videos in Excel Tutorial page.
You can learn the following topics from there,
- Introduction to Microsoft Excel
- Formatting Data in Excel – Basics
- How to Make a Chart in Excel?
- Writing Simple Formulas in Excel
- Introduction Conditional Formatting in Excel
- Introduction to Excel Tables
- Introduction to Excel Pivot Tables
- Using Excel Productively – Keyboard Shortcuts
- Printing Your Workbooks
- 10 Things you can do in Excel under 10 Minutes
How to get the most out of these videos:
- Start with first one and slowly graduate to next steps. No need to hurry, just take one step at a time.
- Keep Excel open and play as you go along.
- Pause wherever you want, repeat some steps until you are clear
- Follow the links beneath the video for more juicy and exciting stuff
- Don’t worry if you fall down or didn’t understand something. It is bound to happen, the sooner you fall, the faster you learn.
Spread the word:
Not about my kids walking. But about the awesome training material at Excel Tutorials page. Tell your friends or colleagues by dropping an email or sharing the URL. Just copy paste the below line.
Hey, check out http://chandoo.org/wp/excel-tutorial/ for some awesome excel tutorials.
That is all, go ahead and take your Excel Baby Steps 🙂
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.