Excel percentage formulas can help with many everyday applications. We'll walk through several examples, including turning fractions to percentages, and calculating percentage of total, increase ...

Excel's PERCENTOF function returns the percentage that a subset of data contributes to a whole dataset, saving you from having to create additional or complex formulas to generate the same outcome.

(The menu options cited below apply specifically to Excel 2016; while this chart can also be created in Excel 2013, 2010, and 2007, the menu options may be slightly different.) 1. Convert metrics data ...