Percentages in Excel are stored as decimal values. After that hit OK and your decimals will be converted to percentages. You can also choose the number of decimal points youd like in each percentage.
We always divided the numerator by the denominator and multiplied the result by 100 to get the.
To find the original amount x divide the final number y by 100 plus the percentage increase and multiply by 100. We find that this number is 25 of some original number. For instance here is the Excel percentage change formula that calculates the percent increase decrease for each month compared to January C2. It is the formatting of a cell that makes the underlying decimal value appear as a percentage.