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MS Excel 2010: Show Totals as a Percentage of Grand Total in a pivot table

This Excel tutorial explains how to show pivot table totals as a percentage of the grand total in Excel 2010 (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).

Question: In Microsoft Excel 2010, how do I show the Totals as a percentage of the Grand Total in a pivot table?

Answer: In this example, we are displaying the Order IDs based on the "Sum of Quantity", but we want to show the Totals based on a percentage of the Grand Total.

To do this, first select one of the Total values that you wish to display as a percentage of the Grand Total. We have clicked on cell B3.

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Right click on cell B3 and select Show Values As > % of Grand Total from the popup menu.

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Now when you view your pivot table, you should only see the Totals displayed as a percentage of the Grand Total.

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