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Bernard Liengme
 
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Since WWII the inch (Imperial and US) has been defined as 2.54 cm EXACTLY.
This means the US has been sort-of-metric for 60 years!
So a more accurate conversion is 0.393700787401575

I would use (1/2.54) as the conversion factor.

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"Biff" wrote in message
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Hi!

From Excel help on convert:

"If this function is not available, and returns the #NAME?
error, install and load the Analysis ToolPak add-in."

Goto ToolsAdd-ins

Check Analysis ToolPak

OR

1 centimeter = 0.393700787 in

=A2*.393700787

Biff

-----Original Message-----
Although the convert function is listed in excel 2002

help it is not
available from the insert formula command and it does't

work in excel 2002.
s there a way to get it to work?
=CONVERT(A2,"cm","in") Returns NAME?
.