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    Question Convert weight loss numbers into percent

    Hi!

    I'm new here but do know a bit about Excel, an average user maybe. Have even taken some classes to get better.
    But I have hit a dead end and need some help.

    Me and a few colleagues felt that we needed to loose some weight after all the christmas and new years food so we put together a competition between us.
    It will go on for several weeks and I wanted to make a diagram of everybody's weight loss, both in pure numbers but also in percent of start weight.

    Let me show you what i mean.

    weight (kilo) %
    92 100
    89 ?
    88 ?
    85 ?
    81 ?

    As you can see in the table above we have the weight input every week in the left column (A). These are the numbers i punch in every week after we done our weekly weigh-in.
    In the right column (B) I want to show the weight loss in percent.
    Since we are several people everyone have different starting weight but I need a formula that transforms, in this case, the first weigh-in (92) to 100%.
    In the example above the next week this imaginary person weigh-in at 89. Now I need to put in a formula in the first field marked with ? (B3) and then keep on doing so in every field marked ?.
    I want every field marked with ? to show the % weight loss from 100%, meaning it will always use the 100% start field, not the previous week.

    I hope I make any sense to you helpers out there. If not, please tell me what you don't understand and I will try to explain it better.
    Hope anyone can help me with this!

    Thanks!
    Kim Cefa
    Sweden

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    Re: Convert weight loss numbers into percent

    Welcome to the forum.

    Row\Col
    A
    B
    C
    1
    weight (kilo)
    Change
    2
    92
    0.0%
    B2: =A2/A$2 - 1
    3
    89
    -3.3%
    4
    88
    -4.3%
    5
    85
    -7.6%
    6
    81
    -12.0%
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    Re: Convert weight loss numbers into percent

    Thank you so very much for that fast answer!
    Got it all working now

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    Re: Convert weight loss numbers into percent

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