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Formatting Numbers as Percentages in Excel Is Frustrating—But Here's an Easy Fix

This can be frustrating, as there's apparently no easy way to stop this from happening. Until now!Imagine you want to turn all the gradient values in column B in the table below into percentages.
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Excel’s hidden REGEX and SCAN functions do way more than you expect

That's where REGEX comes in.It can handle pattern matching and text manipulation with precision. But if you pair it with the SCAN function, you can solve problems that would otherwise require multiple ...