Find amount when having total and percentage
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Now that you've learned how to operate percentages, I hope getting total and the amount will be a child's play. =(B3-$B$2)/$B$2 Amount and total by percentage in Google spreadsheets For that, make the reference to this cell absolute instead of relative so it doesn't change after copying the formula to other cells:
If you take the same sales list and decide to calculate percentage change based on January only, you will have to always refer to the same cell – B2. Here I also coloured percentage decrease with red. To make sure my formula works correctly, I should start entering it from the second row of my table – C3:Ĭopy the formula over all rows with data, apply the percent format, decide on the number of decimals, and voila: This time, I'm tracking total sales (column B) over each month (column A). I also used conditional formatting to highlight cells with percent increase with red and percent decrease with green: Don't forget to apply the percent format and adjust the number of decimal places. What part of the total is composed of all deliveries of that fruit? The SUMIF function will help answer that: Now, suppose a fruit appears more than once in your table. One item takes a few rows – all rows are part of the total I also formatted the results as percent and left 2 decimals to display: Thus, each new record will be calculated based on the sum in $B$8: This type of reference (absolute, with a dollar sign) doesn't change when you copy the formula to other cells. To find the percentage of the total for each fruit, use the same basic formula as before but with a slight difference – an absolute reference to the cell with the total sum. Their total resides at the very end of the data: B8. I believe this is the most common case: you have a table with values in column B.
Let's see what else Google Sheets offers. Though the previous shows the same, it works great for that example but may not be enough for other data set. Here are a few more examples of calculating percentage of a total. Percentage of a total in a Google spreadsheet I removed all decimal places making the formula show the result as a rounded percent. Here's how the result looks on real data:
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