My formula works for negatives as well.

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten

Microsoft MVP - Excel

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Hi

I'm new to spreadsheets and I suspect this problem is very easy to
solve,
G2
is a value of £1048.00. In H2 I want to show this as a percentage gain
from
a starting point of £1000.00 ie 4.8%. I would like H2 to show 4.8% or
4.80%. I'm going round in circles.....
Many thanks :-)


=MOD(G2,1000)/1000

and format as percentage
HTH

Bob Phillips

Wow, fantastic, I'd never have known that! Is there anyway of modiying
the
formula to deal with 952 as a percentage of a 1000? In the sense that for
the purposes of my spreadsheet this is a negative %... -4.80%
Thanks