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It's the order of formatting. If there is a number in the cell, and you press the % autoformat button, it keeps the decimal where it is and simply converts the display format. Hence 2.5 becomes 2.5%

If you format the cell for percentage first, you then need to enter the digits with the decimal in the proper location. So 0.025 properly displays 2.5%
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