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custom formats for plus or minus
This is an easy one:
"IRR guess = "0% I tried this as a custom format, but it doesn't work if the value is negative. In fact, if the value is minus 3%, it ends up showing as (with the negative sign showing up in front of the label): -IRR guess = 3% What do I do to the custom formatting to allow it to show negative values as negative? Thanks! Dean |
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"IRR guess = " 0%;"IRR guess = " -0%
-- HTH Bob Phillips (replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Dean" wrote in message ... This is an easy one: "IRR guess = "0% I tried this as a custom format, but it doesn't work if the value is negative. In fact, if the value is minus 3%, it ends up showing as (with the negative sign showing up in front of the label): -IRR guess = 3% What do I do to the custom formatting to allow it to show negative values as negative? Thanks! Dean |
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Thanks, Bob.
"Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... "IRR guess = " 0%;"IRR guess = " -0% -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Dean" wrote in message ... This is an easy one: "IRR guess = "0% I tried this as a custom format, but it doesn't work if the value is negative. In fact, if the value is minus 3%, it ends up showing as (with the negative sign showing up in front of the label): -IRR guess = 3% What do I do to the custom formatting to allow it to show negative values as negative? Thanks! Dean |
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I am going to show my ignorance here and ask under what circumstance would
one have a negative percentage? "Bob Phillips" wrote: "IRR guess = " 0%;"IRR guess = " -0% -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Dean" wrote in message ... This is an easy one: "IRR guess = "0% I tried this as a custom format, but it doesn't work if the value is negative. In fact, if the value is minus 3%, it ends up showing as (with the negative sign showing up in front of the label): -IRR guess = 3% What do I do to the custom formatting to allow it to show negative values as negative? Thanks! Dean |
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You normally measure your average growth in sales, as the ratio of this year
sales to last year sales, then subtract one. If your sales this year went down, your growth is negative. For example, you sold $100,000 last year but only $90,000 this year. Yes, you could just change your heading to the loss in sales, and say it was +10%, but analysts generally don't do that. Or, as a better example, my growth in sales over each of the last 5 years was, +10%, -5%, +3%, +2%, and 0%. Dean "JLGWhiz" wrote in message ... I am going to show my ignorance here and ask under what circumstance would one have a negative percentage? "Bob Phillips" wrote: "IRR guess = " 0%;"IRR guess = " -0% -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Dean" wrote in message ... This is an easy one: "IRR guess = "0% I tried this as a custom format, but it doesn't work if the value is negative. In fact, if the value is minus 3%, it ends up showing as (with the negative sign showing up in front of the label): -IRR guess = 3% What do I do to the custom formatting to allow it to show negative values as negative? Thanks! Dean |
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I have always thought of percentage as a part of a whole amount. The amount
may be positive or negative but the percentage (part) of it would be expressed as a positive amount and referred to as a gain or a loss but I suppose if the person using the negative percentage understands how they are using it, it is OK. "Dean" wrote: You normally measure your average growth in sales, as the ratio of this year sales to last year sales, then subtract one. If your sales this year went down, your growth is negative. For example, you sold $100,000 last year but only $90,000 this year. Yes, you could just change your heading to the loss in sales, and say it was +10%, but analysts generally don't do that. Or, as a better example, my growth in sales over each of the last 5 years was, +10%, -5%, +3%, +2%, and 0%. Dean "JLGWhiz" wrote in message ... I am going to show my ignorance here and ask under what circumstance would one have a negative percentage? "Bob Phillips" wrote: "IRR guess = " 0%;"IRR guess = " -0% -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Dean" wrote in message ... This is an easy one: "IRR guess = "0% I tried this as a custom format, but it doesn't work if the value is negative. In fact, if the value is minus 3%, it ends up showing as (with the negative sign showing up in front of the label): -IRR guess = 3% What do I do to the custom formatting to allow it to show negative values as negative? Thanks! Dean |
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