The quick formatting icons as for currency, percent and comma separation of
number groups are not on-off toggles, they are "set it" commands only.

You can either click them and use Format Cells to set them to some
non-percent format, or you can select them and use Edit | Clear | Format to
pretty much do the same thing.

"Sydney sidekick" wrote:

I am doing an assignment for management accounting and the lecturer has
deliberatly put errrors in the template he provided.
One of those errors is that the % sign comes up in cells where it is not
needed.
I have tried using the % icon to remove it and go into the cell and delete
everything that is there but when I go to enter data again it puts the % sign
back in.