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FormatPercent Function

Updated: April 2009

Returns an expression formatted as a percentage (multiplied by 100) with a trailing % character.

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                      FormatPercent(Expression[,NumDigitsAfterDecimal [,IncludeLeadingDigit
 [,UseParensForNegativeNumbers [,GroupDigits]]]])
Expression

Required. Expression to be formatted.

NumDigitsAfterDecimal

Optional. Numeric value indicating how many places to the right of the decimal are displayed. Default value is -1, which indicates that the computer's regional settings are used.

IncludeLeadingDigit

Optional. Tristate constant that indicates whether or not a leading zero is displayed for fractional values. See Settings section for values.

UseParensForNegativeNumbers

Optional. Tristate constant that indicates whether or not to place negative values within parentheses. See Settings section for values.

GroupDigits

Optional. Tristate constant that indicates whether or not numbers are grouped using the group delimiter specified in the control panel. See Settings section for values.

The IncludeLeadingDigit, UseParensForNegativeNumbers, and GroupDigits arguments have the following settings:

Constant

Value

Description

vbUseDefault

-2

Use default from computer's regional settings.

vbTrue

-1

True

vbFalse

0

False

When one or more optional arguments are omitted, the values for the omitted arguments are provided by the computer's regional settings.

Note Note:

All settings information comes from the Regional Settings Number tab.

The following example uses the FormatPercent function to format an expression as a percent:

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Dim MyPercent
MyPercent = FormatPercent(2/32) ' MyPercent contains 6.25%.

Date

History

Reason

April 2009

Modified tristate constants table.

Content bug fix.

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