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Excel PivotTable Add Percentage of Total Column [Video]

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Excel PivotTable Add Percentage of Total Column [Video]
March 19, 2013 by Mynda Treacy

Excel PivotTables make light work of analysing data but there are a few tricks once you get past the basics.

In this first tutorial, in my 3 part series on PivotTable tips and tricks, I’m going to show you how to add a percentage of total sales to your PivotTable like this one in column C below:

PivotTable percentage of column

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Written Instructions - How to Add a Percentage of Total Column

1. Add an additional set of Sales values to the Values field from your Field List.

You will have two 'Sum of Sales' fields like this:

PivotTable percentage of column

2. Right click on any of the cells in the 'Sum of Sales2' column in your PivotTable and select 'Value field settings'.

3. Click on the 'Show Values As' tab and select '% of Column Total' from the 'Show values as' list and click OK.

PivotTable percentage of column

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Comments

  1. Sabir Hussain

    May 29, 2015 at 3:51 pm

    How to add % when we have three column including Project titles, Planned yearly targets and achieved progress. Here I want to add % column.

    Reply
    • Mynda Treacy

      May 29, 2015 at 8:21 pm

      Hi Sabir,

      Please send a sample file via our Help Desk, with your data and the percentages you’d like to see in your PivotTable manually calculated outside of it, so we know what your expectations are.

      Thanks,

      Mynda

      Reply
  2. 6tel

    July 20, 2013 at 2:30 am

    Mynda, you are the greatest. I’ve been looking for an answer on this for almost an hour. Thank you very much.

    Reply
    • Mynda Treacy

      July 20, 2013 at 2:45 pm

      You’re welcome, 6tel. Glad I could help 🙂

      Reply
  3. kiran Gangane

    March 20, 2013 at 6:24 pm

    very nice

    Reply
    • Carlo Estopia

      March 21, 2013 at 1:37 am

      Hi Kiran,

      On Behalf of Mynda,
      Thank You!

      Cheers.

      CarloE

      Reply

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