convert percentage to text

[Guest]

when a percentage is converted to text, it always gives the decimal form.
e.g. 24.32% will become 0.2432. How can I keep "24.32%" in text form? I guess
there is a better way to do it in VBA than to first add an apostrophe in the
worksheet cell.

Many thanks.

zhj23

 

[JE McGimpsey]

One way:

Debug.Print Format(0.2432, "0.00%")

or, in XL

=TEXT(0.2432, "0.00%")

 

[Lori]

One way is to copy and paste as text...

First copy with office clipboard (edit menu), then format the cell
range as text and then click the paste icon followed by edit > paste
special > text.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the valuable helps.

Bcos some of my data are in simple numeric (eg 2.63) and some are in
percentage numeric form (eg 24.32%), obviuosly I dont want to convert 2.63 to
263.00%.

Question: how can I evaluate in VBA whether a cell is in simple numeric or
percentage numeric form?

zhj23

 

[JE McGimpsey]

One (simplistic) way:

Dim bPercentFormat As Boolean
bPercentFormat = CBool(InStr(Range("A1").NumberFormat, "%"))
MsgBox bPercentFormat

 

[Guest]

Thanks. JE

One (simplistic) way:

Dim bPercentFormat As Boolean
bPercentFormat = CBool(InStr(Range("A1").NumberFormat, "%"))
MsgBox bPercentFormat

 

[Guest]

Hello! JE

Following your advice, I did the following (extracted codes)
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Dim bPercentFormat as Boolean

For each cell in selection
bPercentFormat = CBool(InStr(ActiveCell.NumberFormat, "%"))
MsgBox bPercentFormat
next cell

 

[JE McGimpsey]

You're right, ActiveCell doesn't change unless you Activate or Select a
range. Use your range object variable instead:

Dim rCell As Range
Dim bPercentFormat as Boolean

For each rCell In Selection
bPercentFormat = CBool(InStr(rCell.NumberFormat, "%"))
MsgBox bPercentFormat
Next rCell

 

[Guest]

Perfect!! Many Thanks.

zhj23

You're right, ActiveCell doesn't change unless you Activate or Select a
range. Use your range object variable instead:

Dim rCell As Range
Dim bPercentFormat as Boolean

For each rCell In Selection
bPercentFormat = CBool(InStr(rCell.NumberFormat, "%"))
MsgBox bPercentFormat
Next rCell