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Mar 19, 2018

Formula to calculate % variance

Good Morning,   It is more a mathematical question than an excel related question but I can't figure it out by my own... I have 20% in a cell A1, 15% in B1 I want to show the difference between...
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    SergeiBaklan
    Mar 19, 2018

    Nope, copy/paste like this doesn't work. In custom format box you type #" pp", after that press Ctrl and hit J, release Ctrl and type %

    Combination Ctrl+J adds non-printable character which force carriage return into the string. It looks like this

    % will be invisible here since it's on another line.

    If uncheck Wrap Text in cell formatting you'll % within the line, with Wrap Text it's invisible since on another line within the cell

     

     

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