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Hi there. I’m trying to calculate a percentage but only if it’s positive. As an example, one record might say 7000 for the total and 1000 for the cost and I want to know what percentage that is. But I have some records that are 0/0 which just gives me “NaN” and some that the total is 0 but the cost is negative by a large number and then it’s returning “-infinity”


Ideally I’d like anything with NaN or a negative value to show up as 0 so that I can see the average for all the positive records. I was trying to use the IF function in the formula but I see nothing in the support section about using IFs with formulas besides just text labels. Here’s what I had as my formula but it won’t let me save it because it says it’s wrong so I’m coming here.

IF({Cost} > 0), “({Total}/{cost})”, “0”


I also tried:

IF({Cost} > 0), “Value({Total}/{cost})”, “0”


And:

IF({Cost} > 0), “=({Total}/{cost})”, “0”


But none of these work and I don’t understand what the problem is

Hi @Emma_MH - try this:


IF(Cost > 0, Total/Cost, 0)


Strictly speaking to get a total as a percentage of cost I would do:


IF(Cost > 0, Total*100/Cost, 0)


I think the problem you have is that if Total and Cost are numbers, you are turning them into strings with the quotes.



Total and Cost are decimal numbers, allowing negatives:



Hope this helps


JB

Hi @Emma_MH - try this:


IF(Cost > 0, Total/Cost, 0)


Strictly speaking to get a total as a percentage of cost I would do:


IF(Cost > 0, Total*100/Cost, 0)


I think the problem you have is that if Total and Cost are numbers, you are turning them into strings with the quotes.



Total and Cost are decimal numbers, allowing negatives:



Hope this helps


JB


Also you can format the percentage column as a percentage:


Thank you! That worked!

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