Percent
"Percent" field is used to hold numerical values that are formatted as percents. It can be used for computation as well.
Values in "Percent" field will be asigned with "%" symbol after after being entered.
Common scenarios using "Percent" field are:
You can use "Percent" field to record discount in promotion activities. Moreover, you can combine "Percent" discount field with a field that records cost to compute your profit.
You can use "Percent" field to record the proportion of expenses.
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Instructions
To have a "Percent" field, you can double-click the field header and set "Percent" as the field type. You can also customize the field's details with following below instructions.
Precision
You'll have option of selecting precision up to 4 decimal places.
- 1
- 1.0
- 1.00
- 1.000
- 1.0000
Default value
After setting a default value, a new record will be added with the default number entered.
Notes
Similarly, only numerical content is allowed to be filled into the field, and text content will be automatically removed.
FAQs
If I enter 0.1, the value in the field is 0.1% instead of 10%. Why?
Because "Percent" field recognizes the content of number itself rather than the content formatted as percent.