I am trying to get dynamic percentages with my subtotals. My problem is
hard to explain in words, so I'll try to visually lay it out.
I can easily lay out the logic, but my syntax needs a lot of help. As a
novice to VB and macros- I'm trying my best. I'm running Excel XP on
Windows XP. I export the following data from Access XP into an excel
worksheet where I have one macro that I use to easily format
everything.

I have the following data (a sample)
Bob 2
Bob 3
Bob 5
Jill 1
Jill 1
Jill 8

I then use the subtotal thing to get
Bob 2
Bob 3
Bob 5
Bob total 10
Jill 1
Jill 1
Jill 8
Jill total 10

I am trying to get another column going- percentage from total. A final
copy would look like the following:
A B C
1 Bob 2 20%
2 Bob 3 30%
3 Bob 5 50%
4 Bob total 10 100%
5 Jill 1 10%
6 Jill 1 10%
7 Jill 8 80%
8 Jill total 10 100%

The amount of data under any particular name is always changing, so I
need some kind of dynamic way to do this. I can manually write out the
code but as this information changes on a daily basis it is very time
consuming.
Ex code:
C1 -- =C1/$C$4
C2 -- =C2/$C$4
C3 -- =C3/$C$4
C4 -- =C4/$C$4

I usually type the code out in C1 and drag it down to the subtotal
line. I then click the percentage button to format the data. This
works well but unfortunately my sheet has hundreds of people in it.

I had planned on writing a macro to do all of this for me but I've been
unable to find anything remotely related to what I want to do (spent
the last 24 hrs straight checking everything I have- including books,
internet, people). Can someone please help me?

This formula, put in C2 (under column headers) and copied down, should do
what you are asking:
=$B2/SUMIF($A:$A,$A2,$B:$B)


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I am trying to get dynamic percentages with my subtotals. My problem is
hard to explain in words, so I'll try to visually lay it out.
I can easily lay out the logic, but my syntax needs a lot of help. As a
novice to VB and macros- I'm trying my best. I'm running Excel XP on
Windows XP. I export the following data from Access XP into an excel
worksheet where I have one macro that I use to easily format
everything.

I have the following data (a sample)
Bob 2
Bob 3
Bob 5
Jill 1
Jill 1
Jill 8

I then use the subtotal thing to get
Bob 2
Bob 3
Bob 5
Bob total 10
Jill 1
Jill 1
Jill 8
Jill total 10

I am trying to get another column going- percentage from total. A final
copy would look like the following:
A B C
1 Bob 2 20%
2 Bob 3 30%
3 Bob 5 50%
4 Bob total 10 100%
5 Jill 1 10%
6 Jill 1 10%
7 Jill 8 80%
8 Jill total 10 100%

The amount of data under any particular name is always changing, so I
need some kind of dynamic way to do this. I can manually write out the
code but as this information changes on a daily basis it is very time
consuming.
Ex code:
C1 -- =C1/$C$4
C2 -- =C2/$C$4
C3 -- =C3/$C$4
C4 -- =C4/$C$4

I usually type the code out in C1 and drag it down to the subtotal
line. I then click the percentage button to format the data. This
works well but unfortunately my sheet has hundreds of people in it.

I had planned on writing a macro to do all of this for me but I've been
unable to find anything remotely related to what I want to do (spent
the last 24 hrs straight checking everything I have- including books,
internet, people). Can someone please help me?

Your formula worked perfectly! Thanks a lot!
Brett