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I am trying to insert a column that shows the percent change in two figures. I am using the typical new-old/old formula and that works great unless the old figure is a 0 and then I get an error. How do I correct this?
I am trying to insert a column that shows the percent change in two figures. I am using the typical new-old/old formula and that works great unless the old figure is a 0 and then I get an error. How do I correct this?
Last edited by esion9302; 07-12-2010 at 12:50 PM.
please upload the excel file
=IF(A1=0, "",(B1-A1)/A1)
where A1 = old value
ChemistB
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ChemistB is correct, the reason it comes back with an error is because mathematically you cannot divide by 0, so you get #DIV/0, using the formula will leave it blank.
What type of IF statement am I supposed to use? Thanks.
what do you mean? the if statement is the one ChemistB posted, but according to your excel:
=IF(B1=0;"";(A1-B1)/B1)
in all your column C
Sorry, I just caught the problem. On the original file they have last year's value in B so I had A and B switched on the IF statement. Thanks.
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