Skip to content
Free Excel Tutorials
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Data Analysis

  • Conditional Formatting Data bars Examples in Excel
  • Everything about Charts in Excel
  • Number and Text Filters Examples in Excel
  • Excel Pie Chart
  • Excel Line Chart

References

  • INDEX function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Basic INDEX MATCH approximate in Excel
  • LOOKUP function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Merge tables with VLOOKUP in Excel
  • To count total rows in a range in Excel

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation allow weekday only
  • Excel Data validation unique values only
  • How To Create Drop-down List in Excel
  • Excel Data validation number multiple 100
  • Excel Data validation date in specific year

How to calculate percentage of total in Excel

by

To calculate percent of a total (i.e. calculate a percent distribution), you can use a formula that simply divides an amount by the total.

Formula

=amount/total

Explanation

In the example shown, the formula in D6 is:

=C6/$C$11

Note: the result is formatted with Percentage number format to show 25%, 10%, etc.

How the formula works

In the example, D6 contains the formula below, copied down:

=C6/$C$11

In cell D6, the result of the calculation is .625. The Percentage number format is applied to cell D6, with 2 decimal places, so Excel displays .625 as 63%.

The reference to C11 is absolute (i.e. $C$11) so that it won’t change when the formula is copied down column D. This means that each value in column C will be divided by the same total in C11.

Percentage vs number

When you want to display a percentage in Excel, use the Percentage number format, which will automatically display a decimal value as a percentage. If you want a simple number instead without a percent sign (i.e. 75, 85, 100, etc.) you can multiply by 100:

=(C6/$C$11)*100

Post navigation

Previous Post:

DECIMAL function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Next Post:

AVERAGE function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others

Logical Functions

  • FALSE function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • IF with boolean logic in Excel
  • Invoice status with nested if in Excel
  • How to use Excel AND Function
  • Check multiple cells are equal in Excel

Date Time

  • Calculate series of dates by workdays in Excel
  • Convert Unix time stamp to Excel date
  • How to Calculate Age in Excel
  • How to calculate most recent day of week in Excel
  • Get work hours between dates in Excel

Grouping

  • Group numbers at uneven intervals in Excel
  • Calculate conditional mode with criteria in Excel
  • Group times into unequal buckets in Excel
  • Map inputs to arbitrary values in Excel
  • How to randomly assign people to groups in Excel

General

  • Count cells less than in Excel
  • 3D SUMIF for multiple worksheets in Excel
  • How to test a range for numbers in Excel
  • Print Excel Sheet In Landscape Or Portrait
  • Mark Workbook as Final in Excel
© 2025 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning