If you are using Excel for the web click Home Number Format Percentage. How to calculate percentage difference and percentage formula. When using the percentage difference formula to calculate the difference it first starts by calculating the difference between the specified values.
Percentage Difference 375 x 100 40.
For example a subtraction of 5 minus 10 gives -5. To calculate the percentage change between two values in Excel you can use a formula that divides the difference between two values by the old value. Divide 3600 by 24 to get y 360024 150 y 150 Therefore 24 of 150 is 36 How to use the other formula for percentage on the right. Percent difference formula is obtained by dividing the absolute value of change by the average of the values and then multiplying it with 100.