Percentage not reflected clearly?

[FARAZ QURESHI]

When I enter 50 in a field formatted as percent, the figure results out to be
0% upon hitting enter however, upon inserting 55 the result is 100%. What
could be the reason?

 

[Wayne-I-M]

Open the table in design view and change the field to single or double (you
will most likely have long intergra)

Also if you think abouyt 1 (one) being a whole - thats 100%, then 50% must
be .5

So change the field format and enter .5

 

[Golfinray]

Could you have the field set to integer? Integer will just give you integers.
No decimal places at all. Or you could have decimal places set to 0.