First of all please do not post in all upper case letters, in the NG's it is
considered SHOUTING and it is more difficult to read especially people whose
1st language is not English.

EXAMPLE:
36.5 HRS PLUS .45 MINUTES TO EQUAL A TOTAL

By 36.5 do you mean 36 hours and 30 minutes? If so format the cell as
custom format [h]:mm:ss then enter the time with a colon between the hours
and minutes. If you are using B2 for that entry and B3 for 0:45 (forty-five
minutes) then the total in C2 (custom formatted as [h]:mm:ss ) will be:

=B2+B3

And will display as: 36:15:00

if you want to divide this time by 21 and have the answer still in C2 then
the formula will be:

=(B2+B3)/21

or if the 21 is entered in D2:

=(B2+B3)/D2

The parentheses are required because the order of calculation in Excel is
division the addition so without the parentheses Excel would divide B3 by 21
then add B2 to it.

Check out:

http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/datetime.htm#AddingTimes


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"ANNIE828" <u38762@uwe wrote in message news:7aa1b16cc78b4@uwe...
I AM TRYING TO FORMULATE A SPREADSHEET

EXAMPLE:
36.5 HRS PLUS .45 MINUTES TO EQUAL A TOTAL; THEN TO DIVIDE THE # OF PCS,
SUCH
AS 21 INTO THE TOTAL TIME TO FIGURE OUT HOW MUCH TIME IT TOOK TO DO EACH
PIECE IN PRODUCTION.

DO I FORMULATE THE COLUMNS FOR TIME OR JUST STANDARD. MY CALCULATIONS ARE
NOT COMING OUT CORRECTLY.

THANKS

ANNIE828