thanks guys, it was the multiply by 24 that had me stumped

regards

Matelodave

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

Thanks for the correction.
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Gary''s Student


"Niek Otten" wrote:

<if you change the formatting of a3 to General, then 5.666666667 will be displayed

Only after you've multiplied by 24 (since time is stored as a fraction of a day)

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Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel


"Gary''s Student" wrote in message
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| No factor is needed:
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| say a1 contains 8:50 and a2 contains 3:10 and the formula in a3 is:
| =A1-A2
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| the value 5:40 will be displayed, but if you change the formatting of a3 to
| General, then 5.666666667 will be displayed and can be used directly to be
| multiplied by a rate.
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| Gary's Student
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| "matelodave" wrote:
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| I want to enter a start time and end time to show number of hour & minutes
| spent against a task(done that) then I want to enter an hourly rate and
| calculate the cost but I cant find a formula or calculation that converts the
| time hours mins into a decimal (eg 5hr 40min = 5.66) to do the time/cost
| calculation.