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How to get the % symbol in Survey123 form

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02-17-2022 08:28 AM
by Anonymous User
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I am trying to show a drop down menu of values 1-15%. Under label in the XLSForm, I typed 1%, 2%, 3%, etc. But when I launch the survey the values turn to 0.01, 0.02, 0.03 etc. Is there a way to keep the percentage symbol?

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DougBrowning
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This is excel not 123 issue.  You have to force excel to make it a string. But even that can be weird.  For me I had to put a space between the number and percent sign then force the format to string in excel and that got it.

Hope that helps

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DougBrowning
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This is excel not 123 issue.  You have to force excel to make it a string. But even that can be weird.  For me I had to put a space between the number and percent sign then force the format to string in excel and that got it.

Hope that helps

by Anonymous User
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Thank you! How do you force the format to string?

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by Anonymous User
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It looks like if you add ' before the number it automatically makes it a text. So '1% now shows up as 1%. Hopefully that will help you as well! Thanks so much!

DougBrowning
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Just right click then format in the cells.

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