Thank you for your help it's amazing how one little missing operand can cause
so much problems.
Bernie

David Biddulph wrote:
Hello and thank you so much. I'm trying to find out what the percentage
of C
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of
the sum of C3 and D3.

=20/(c3+d3)

is the percentage that c3+d3 is of 20.

You may prefer (c3+d3)/20 rather than 20/(c3+d3) ?

However, now you have a display problem, because if c3+d320, you want the
number 20 displayed, but if it's less, you want a percentage displayed. A
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There's always a solution.

Perhaps =MIN((c3+d3)/20,1) and format that as percentage, you'll get 100% as
the maximum when C3+D320. With Fred's solution [having inverted the
20/(c3+d3), see above], you'd get the same answer for a total of 4 as for
20, as both would show 20%

You could dispense with the formatting as percentage, and use
=IF(C5+D5=20,20,(C5+D5)/0.2&"%")
but that would give a text answer in the percentage case, so couldn't be
used for further calculations.
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David Biddulph

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