Why Typing 40 Shows Up as 4000% in Excel
Percentage formatting multiplies whatever’s stored by 100 for display. Type a plain number instead of the percent sign, and the math still runs, just on the wrong starting value.
Percentage formatting multiplies whatever’s stored by 100 for display. Type a plain number instead of the percent sign, and the math still runs, just on the wrong starting value.
FILTER’s #CALC! and #SPILL! errors look similar but mean opposite things: one is about nothing matching, the other is about matches with nowhere to land.
The normal right-click method needs a visible row on both sides of the hidden one. Row 1 has no row above it, which is exactly why it needs a different fix.
VLOOKUP trusts a number typed once and never rechecked. INDEX/MATCH searches for the column by name every time, which is the specific reason it survives an inserted column and VLOOKUP doesn’t.
XLOOKUP searches any direction and defaults to exact match. It’s also completely absent from Excel 2016 and Excel 2019, a compatibility gate most comparisons skip entirely.
VLOOKUP’s col_index_num is a number typed once and never rechecked. Insert a column anywhere inside the range, and it silently returns the wrong value with no error at all.
A monthly total is rarely the whole story. Two independently verified AI tools both show the same pattern: the real limit is a second detail the headline figure doesn’t mention.
Otter’s monthly minute total and its per-conversation cap are two separate limits. For most standard meeting lengths, only one of them actually decides what gets transcribed.
Two of Grammarly’s own official pages, fetched the same day, name a different set of plans. Neither is fake. Here’s which one to trust and why they disagree.
Grammarly’s own pricing page lists exact numbers by plan. What it doesn’t make obvious is that the monthly refill date is tied to your account’s own history, not the calendar.