Negative percentage in data verification dropdown list?

[Gary]

Is it possible to have a negative percentage a in data verification list as
one of the choices in the dropdown list ? Negative percentages display
incorrectly in a percentage-formatted cell, and don't calculate correctly in
formulas. Positive .01 displays as 1% and correctly calculates, but negative
-.01 dislpays as -.01 and creates an entirely incorrect value when run
through my formulas. I've also tried .-01. Any secrets out there?

 

[Jacob Skaria]

If you have formatted the dropdown cell to percentage format.. that would
display all percentages in % format

 

[David Biddulph]

It sounds as if the "number" you put in the cell wasn't -.01
You've probably got some text string. Check for spaces or non-breaking
spaces or other non-numerical characters. Also check that you've got -.01,
not -.O1
You can check whether it is number or text by using =ISNUMBER(cellref) and
=ISTEXT(cellref).

 

[Gary]

Thank you, both of you. It does work. Not sure what I was doing before.