How To Get The Percentage of Actual Sales vs. Target Sales Using MS Excel & Cell Reference Formula - Sofia B - Precision Minister

How to get the Percentage
of Actual Sales vs. Target

Sales using MS Excel & Cell
Reference Formula
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Firstly, what is Cell

References Formula?
It is a string recognizing
certain cells in a spreadsheet,
related to the cell containing

the reference.
A cell reference may be

absolute
(designated by a "$"
prefix in Excel )
or relative (no prefix) in

each measure.
Dont worry, you will

understand it more in a bit.
In a less technical
definition,
A cell reference refers to a

cell or a range of cells on a
worksheet
that can be used in a

formula
so that MS Excel can find the

values or data
that you want the

formula to calculate.
In one or several
formulas,
you can use a cell

reference to refer to:
1. Data from one cell on

the worksheet.
2. Data that is contained in

different areas of a worksheet.
3. Data in cells on other worksheets

in the same workbook.
Lastly, there are two types

of cell references: relative
and absolute.
Relative and absolute

references behave differently
when copied and

applied to other cells.
Relative
references change
when a formula is
copied to another cell.
Absolute references, on
the other hand,
remain constant, no matter

where they are copied.
So lets get to it!
Open your MS Excel
Click on it
This is MS Excel
I will now input my sales

data
Lets put the sales

target here
And then the value for

each months target
Which is 100,000 pcs
Of bikes (for example)
Then lets put the months of the

year with their actual sales
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
And lastly, December
Now we will get the

percentage of each month,
In relation to the monthly

target which is 100,000
The formula will be:
Actual sales Target sales =

Percentage of Actual sales in
Reference to the Target sales
The Cell Reference in short is

B1 which contains the
100,000 target sales
The basic thing to do is

click this cell,
Type the Equal sign,
Click the actual sales of

January (B2),
Divide it (slash sign),
By the sales target which is 100,000

by clicking on its cell (B1)
Then press Enter
This is the percentage amount

but it is not in percentage form
What we do is highlight the whole

column of D by clicking D
Go up to the menu bar
And click the

percentage sign
The values in Column D are

now in percentage form
Now lets go back to the

formula again
To save time and energy,

drag the formula to the whole
column
To do that, highlight this

cell (D2)
Put your mouse pointer

to the corner of the cell
And wait for the pointer

to turn into a plus sign +
And drag the plus sign +

through the whole column
This should mean that your

formula was applied uniformly
all throughout the column
But let us check the formula

applied in February
Click on the cell (D3)
And look at the formula

of the cell above
It says B3 B2
February Actual sales

January Actual sales
Its wrong!
It should be B3 B1
February Actual sales

Target Sales
No wonder the result is

232% !
The assumption was that when

we dragged down the plus sign
through the whole column D,
The formula for each

cell of column D
should have been Current

cell 100,000 (B1) like the
result in January
Let us check Marchs

result formula
Click on the cell D4
The formula is now B4

B3
March sales February

sales
Its still not right
Let us check the April

result
Click on April result

(D5)
And look above for its

formula
Predictably it is wrong
again
It is now B5 B4
April sales March

sales
So I am going to show you

how to do it correctly
Go back to Excel
And erase the results in

Column D
Click the January cell

again (D2)
Type the formula:

=B2/B1
And press enter
and since we want the value of

100,000 (B1) to be constant in all
cells of the column,
Click the January cell

again (D2)
Look at the formula bar

above
Put your cursor after B1
And click Fn+f4 from

your keyboard
Dollar signs now

appeared
It means that you are locking

down the column B and row 1
Column B and Row 1 is actually

the Cell B1 (value: 100,000)
We intend to lockdown cell B1

because it is our Cell reference
in our formula
Click Fn+f4 again and you will see

the dollar sign is now only at 1
This means you are only

locking in Row 1
Click Fn+f4 again and you will see

the dollar sign is now only at B
This means you are only

locking in Column B
Click Fn+f4 again and you will

see the dollar sign disappeared
This means you are not

locking in anything
Click Fn+f4 again to

lock the B1 cell itself
Now highlight this cell

(D2)
Put your mouse pointer

to the corner of the cell
And wait for the pointer

to turn into a plus sign +
And drag the plus sign +

through the whole column
We now have the

correct results at last
Lets check random cells on the

column to make sure they have
the correct formula
This is correct: March sales

100,000
This is correct: May sales

100,000
And now youre done!!
Credits to Microsoft Office

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How to get the Percentage

of Actual Sales vs. Target

Firstly, what is Cell

related to the cell containing

A cell reference may be

or relative (no prefix) in

Dont worry, you will

A cell reference refers to a

that can be used in a

so that MS Excel can find the

that you want the

you can use a cell

1. Data from one cell on

2. Data that is contained in

3. Data in cells on other worksheets

Lastly, there are two types

Relative and absolute

when copied and

remain constant, no matter

So lets get to it!

Open your MS Excel

I will now input my sales

Lets put the sales

And then the value for

Which is 100,000 pcs

Of bikes (for example)

Then lets put the months of the

And lastly, December

Now we will get the

In relation to the monthly

The formula will be:

Actual sales Target sales =

The Cell Reference in short is

The basic thing to do is

Type the Equal sign,

Click the actual sales of

Divide it (slash sign),

By the sales target which is 100,000

Then press Enter

This is the percentage amount

What we do is highlight the whole

Go up to the menu bar

And click the

The values in Column D are

Now lets go back to the

To save time and energy,

To do that, highlight this

Put your mouse pointer

And wait for the pointer

And drag the plus sign +

This should mean that your

But let us check the formula

Click on the cell (D3)

And look at the formula

February Actual sales

February Actual sales

No wonder the result is

The assumption was that when

The formula for each

should have been Current

Let us check Marchs

Click on the cell D4

The formula is now B4