You must be doing something incorrectly.
First mark the rrange of cells where you want to enter your data and
FormatCellsNumberPercentage
Then in a cell tpe =5/4 and it will show 125%, =2/1 will show 200%, =7/2
will show 350%

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Regards

Roger Govier


"Saxman" wrote in message
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One of my hobbies is horse racing and I am faced with the following
problem.

If one converts an incomplete fraction like 5/4 (1.25 decimal), as a
percentage it equals 44%.

Likewise 2/1 (2.0), 33%.

How can I type fractions as above in one cell, and convert/replace them to
a percentage as above in another cell? The conversion does not have to be
formatted as a percentage, just a number to use for calculations in the
next stage.