formatting a percentage in a cell

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I am trying to show this in a cell: 83% Complete

The 83% is from a vlookup and I concatenate with the word "Complete".
Problem is that when i do this the % becomes the actual value
0.832458... How can i make it so it stays a percentage?

Thanks
 
Something like:

=text(vlookup_result, "0%") & " Complete"

or, in the cell with the Vlookup formula, just Custom Format the cell as

Format/Numbers/Custom
Type:  0%" Complete"

This latter has the possible advantage that the contents of the cell is still a number.
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I actually did it like your first suggestion. Thanks
 
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