Changing Prices up a certain Percent

Posted by Lucy on May 14, 2001 9:17 AM

Can I take a column of prices highlight them and change all the prices by say up 5%? Will Excel calculate like that?
Thanks
Lucy

Posted by Kevin James on May 14, 2001 9:54 AM

Hi Lucy,

Not automatically. A macro could be written to do this. But if you don't mind using a seperate column, you could, in the next blank column write a formula that references the first to do your markup.

For the sake of illustration:
Row one contains titles of your column data
Column A contains the data you want to mark up.
column B is available for the formula

The first formula in cell B2 would be:
=A2*1.05

After entering that formula, copy it down for many rows as you have data in column A.

Posted by Mark W. on May 14, 2001 10:13 AM

Lucy, you could temporarily enter 1.05 into an
empty cell, Copy it, select the prices that you
want to revise, and choose the Edit | Paste Special...
menu command clicking the "Values" and "Multiply"
radio buttons.

Also, there's a popular free utility, ASAP Utilities,
that supports such transformations. See
http://www.asap-utilities.com/ .