Column/Row Groups & Symbols & Percent Change

Credits to this YouTuber

Great Excel tips from this YouTuber. Column and Row grouping is helpful for hiding and unhiding in quick efficient manner. 

The classic (New-Old)/Old then convert into percentage to find percent change

Use the insert --> Symbol and I used geometric shapes. Also used a conditional formatting for easy reading

Ctrl + 1 is hotkey shortcut to format cells


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