Percentage Help Excel

[phleb]

Hiya, i know i can rely on you all. what is £450-10%? i have set percentage on excel. but answer comes up as 449.90. thanks x

[Baldric]

Inclined to agree with Retro, would certainly get no business from me after reading that!

[phleb]

I am fully capable of doing admin work from home, although i do not see the relevance of this question to my previous posts.

I am not ashamed to ask for help, thank you not so much for your negative, mean comments retrochic, it just makes me reluctant to ask on here again!

I appreciate the answers every one else gave me. I have a GCSE maths book here and have been working on that, and when i tried to play around on excel i couldn't do it, so i asked, like any normal person would do.

I would not accept work if i wasn't capable. Thank you not so much to Baldric, for also being so negative also.

Many thanks to prudie, jim, old geezer, i put my hands up i am rubbish at maths, but we cant all be good at everything. xx

[boxtops]

I don't see phleb's question as an admission of poor education - more of "which formula do I use to get the result on Excel"? We're not all whizzes on spreadsheet formulae.

[DTCwordfan]

Agree on the excel and word courses, though having basic maths in the brain helps tee up the formulas before learning how to do things like replicate on excel. My youngest could do that age 6 but then she was multiplying (with the logic tied down) at age 4 -'seven groups of five is.....' Age 11 and its differentiation and calculus that she is taking on. Beats me hands down.

Phleb, things like Powerpoint are valuable too.

[EcclesCake]

Being able to use MS Excel is pretty much a given for anyone working in Admin. You have asked a couple of questions that reveal you are not at all au fait with the programme.

It would be a very good idea to improve your skills in MS Office before you start selling yourself as an Admin Professional.

If you want to sell your skills you really need to have a benchmark, what courses have you taken to add to your CV to demonstrate your competency?

[THECORBYLOON]

PHLEB there will be folk who are a whiz at maths but couldn't re-wire a plug. We each have strengths and weaknesses so don't be put off.

[phleb]

corbyloon, thank you, and thanks boxtops. i feel really deflated after their comments. I have RSA 1 and 2. I am looking to brush up on this, that's why i am learning new things at a steady pace while looking after Polly.

[sherrardk]

Phleb, you carry on and ignore the detractors. Lots of people are not confident with numbers and rather than just plod on blindly you knew it was wrong and asked for guidance, that's how people get better at things. Himself is very well educated but can't spell for toffee, I'm rubbish at some aspects of grammar and my eight times table is laughable. Four of my kids are fabulous at maths (two are outstanding) but one is completely hopeless - we are all different but recognising when we can't do something is a valuable attribute.

[DTCwordfan]

Keep it going and beef that cv up as suggested, phleb. I wouldn't be deflated....good luck!

[boxtops]

Phleb - I was proofreading an article for a magazine the other day, and there were some glaring punctuation errors which I wanted to rectify. I was told by the person with whom I was working that "Mr X wrote that article, and he's been to university, so I wouldn't presume to correct his writing". Pfft - being an academic and extremely clever in your chosen discipline doesn't mean that he's good at basic stuff!

Have you got a Pitmans Centre near to you? They run some good short office courses on topics like the Microsoft applications, which could be really helpful to you - or your local FE college probably does short IT courses too.

[Dizmo]

phleb: Just ignore them. Next time just stick "£450-10%" in google, get the answer then ask the question about excel (nobody needs to know about the google bit). That way you won't get people moaning about your maths ability. The other good thing is that Google doesn't slate you :)

[sherrardk]

Just a thought, BBC bitesize (a GCSE hint site) is excellent for re-covering bits of maths (and other subjects) that you might be rusty on - really clear and easy to follow.

[boxtops]

I agree sher - I'd forgotten about that site.

[phleb]

Aww thank you all xxx

[Dizmo]

BBC Bitesize Maths: Last on - Thu 10 May 2012. Tut tut to the BBC

[phleb]

sherrard, i have just been on it. thank you for suggestion, that's useful and i didn't know it existed. x

[phleb]

dizmo, i will do that next time. x

[sherrardk]

Dizmo - it's all on the net now, the site is fab.

[jim360]

Why do we need to reassure people by dissing the intelligent? There are plenty of intelligent people who are also very well-rounded...

Having said that, being bad at maths (or any other subject) isn't the end of the world. Hopefully you'll be able to pick it back up again with the aid of bitesize -- and also feel free to ask questions here, there's plenty of people who will be happy to help with Excel and/ or maths questions you may have.

[sherrardk]

Him - is that to me about himself not being able to spell?