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Ok so it's Sunday morning and i can't for the life of me remember how to turn
a value in to a percentage.

So heres the plan

the figure projected Sales (O4) - Actual sales (P4) = Difference % (Q4)
How do i turn the figure returned in Q4 in to a percentage and make it
absolute!

Real Brain fade!!!

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Percentage difference is:

=(Projected - Actual) / Projected

Format as %.

If you want to make it absolute (although I can't figure out any reason
why), use:

=abs((projected - actual) / projected)

The problem with this formula is you would never know if you were above or
below the projection.

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Ok so it's Sunday morning and i can't for the life of me remember how to
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a value in to a percentage.

So heres the plan

the figure projected Sales (O4) - Actual sales (P4) = Difference % (Q4)
How do i turn the figure returned in Q4 in to a percentage and make it
absolute!

Real Brain fade!!!

Thanks


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