So what are the other shift hours? If you only need to check for E and you
want to know how many times it occurred in a range you can use

=(COUNTIF(B:B,"E")*"15:00")-(COUNTIF(B:B,"E")*"06:00")

where I assumed that for shift E start time is 06:00 so if for instance
there were 6 occurrences of E in column B the result would be 54:00 (format
result as custom [hh]:mm) and if you want to multiply that with a rate
multiply with 24 as well as the rate, with 54:00 in H2

=H2*24*20.50

format as currency


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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Angel Devoid" <Angel wrote in message
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i would like to know if excel could seek out a certain letter eg(E) and
turn
it in to a number eg e=15:00 as in what time the work shift finnishes.
need
to know a formula for it tried the "if" formula. =if(a2="E","15:00") which
works untill you tell it too look in more then one cell because the cells
have a mixture of E , LM , MID all diferent shifts. get my drift?