That would work!!! Except, I have one more confusing thing to throw in there.
If my hours, which are just numbers, are like this: week one total hours are
36, and week two total hours are 42, I need to be able to input up to 40
hours a week, but if one week doesn't have 40 hours, and the other has over
40 hours, I need to have it add it so that the total would not be 78, but 76.
Otherwise that first equation would have worked. The second one works and is
a godsend though!
Thank you!!
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"Sandy Mann" wrote:

For the total working hours try:

=MIN(SUM(A1:A2),72)

for the overtime hours:

=MAX(0,SUM(A1:A2)-72)

Assuming that your *hours* are numbers and not XL times

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"¿Confused?" wrote in message
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Excel won't accept it like that, you can't use the greater than or less
than
signs. I'm trying to make it calculate hours on payroll, where if you had
a
total of 32 hours for week one in cell A1, and a total of 42 hours for
week
two in cell A2, that it would take the total hours < 40.01 for both weeks
and
add them together, so that the total would be 72 hours. The next part of
that is that I would also need an equation that would take the 2 hours
extra
and put them in a different cell, so that it would show the overtime hours
worked. In reality I need two equations one for cell A3 which would be
regular hours worked : =SUM(A1<40.01,A2<40.01)
and cell A4 which would be overtime hours worked :
=SUM(A140.01,A240.01)

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"Bob Phillips" wrote:

So if ... it was just straight equations, it would look sort of like
this:
=SUM(A1<40.01,A2<40.01) ..., why isn't it straight equations?

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"¿Confused?" wrote in message
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I do a payroll for my company on excel, and everyone but me is living in
the
stone age. They still haven't figured out =Sum(A1,A2). Anyways, I'm
trying
to write a macro to help me make less mistakes. If it was just
straight
equations, it would look sort of like this: =SUM(A1<40.01,A2<40.01).
If
anyone can help, I would appreciate it!
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