Planning and Reporting Visual
End User Documentation

Relative Value Changes

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The Aimplan Planning & Reporting Visual features relative value changes to enable users to quickly perform operations like percentage increase/decrease without the aid of external tools.

This document provides a quick overview of how to use relative changes and which operations are supported.

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Usage

To perform a relative value change, start editing the value of a cell and type a = followed by the desired operation.

Supported Operations

  • Addition - =+number
  • Subtraction - =-number
  • Multiplication - =*number
  • Division - =/number
  • Percentage increase - =+number%
  • Percentage decrease - =-number%
  • Percentage of value - =number%

Examples

Below are some examples of supported operations. The examples assume the initial value of the cell is 10.

Operator

Example

Result

Addition

=+10

20

Subtraction

=-10

0

Multiplication

=*2

20

Division

=/2

5

Percentage increase

=+10%

11

Percentage decrease

=-10%

9

Percentage of total

=10%

1