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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!
does not equal
So on the first line it has 6.05 and I need it to show 605%.
- Anonymous4 years ago
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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- AnonymousNot applicable
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?
- AnonymousNot applicable
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.- AnonymousNot applicable
Of course I just needed to change the number format - sometimes it's that obvious. Thank you!