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Default how can I multiply number of hours and minutes by hourly rate?

Times in Excel are stored as fractions of a day.
So Time*24*Rate gives your required value

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Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel


"cab0419" wrote in message ...
|I have set-up a worksheet that allows me to track start and stop times for
| each client so I can have total billable hours for each client at the end of
| the month. This works fine but I would like to take it one step further and
| put in an hourly rate for each client and let Excel calcuate the amount to
| invoice at the end of the month.
|
| The problem I am having is that I can't seem to separate the hours from the
| minutes to do the calculation properly. Right now I hve a single cell
| formatted with the total monthly hours and minutes. Often this number is
| greater than 24 hours (ie 35:28). I want to multiply the total number of
| hours and minutes by a dollar value and come up with a total dollar value for
| the month.
|
| The MINUTE function seems to take care of the minutes fine. However the HOUR
| function divides by 24 and returns only a number less than 24. This is not
| acceptable for billable hours greater than 24 per month.
|
| Any ideas about how to get the right total?