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Re: Percentage Formatting

 
 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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      24th Aug 2009
You need to multiply by 100. Keep in mind that 2.60% is 0.026.

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"RobinB" <u54245@uwe> wrote in message news:9b16454a3b30c@uwe...
>I am trying to format an access database percentage (set up as a Double -
> Percent - 2) in access as, for example, 2.50% in word. My mergefield
> looks
> like this:
> {MERGEFIELD Merit\#0.00%}
> Unfortunately it keeps returning 0.02% rather than the 2.60%. Can you
> tell
> me where I am going wrong?
>


 
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