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Anonymous
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Issues converting number into a percentage

Hi team,

 

I'm trying to calculate the percent of hours used over the hours budget which I was able to accomplish using DIVIDE.

 

When I go into 'show as a percent of grand total' it is showing the incorrect amount. How do I avoid this?

 

When I convert this column to a percent the numbers are not equal - what am I doing wrong? Thanks!

 

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does not equal 

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So on the first line it has 6.05 and I need it to show 605%.

 

 

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Daryl-Lynch-Bzy
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@Anonymous - I am not sure what you mean by "Percentage of Grand Total".  If you convert the Number formatting from Decimal to Percentage then 6.05 will become 605%.  But changing the measure to "Percentage of Grand Totals" is different Measure.  605% as Percentage of X?

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Daryl-Lynch-Bzy
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@Anonymous - I am not sure what you mean by "Percentage of Grand Total".  If you convert the Number formatting from Decimal to Percentage then 6.05 will become 605%.  But changing the measure to "Percentage of Grand Totals" is different Measure.  605% as Percentage of X?

Anonymous
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So if i change the formula to 

Hours_Actual divided by Hours_Budget =
DIVIDE(SUM('Projects'[Hours_Actual]), SUM('Projects'[Hours_Budget])) * 100 it is still showing the incorrect amount.
Anonymous
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Of course I just needed to change the number format - sometimes it's that obvious. Thank you!

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