Hi Dan,

Multiply by 24 and format as General or Number, not as Time (which is what Excel does automatically)

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"DanielWalters6" wrote in message
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|I have a list of start and finish times.
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| I've subtracted the finish time from the start time to get the number of
| hours an employee has worked.
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| This number of hours is given as 6:15 or 7:30, from this, how can I extract
| 6.25 or 7.5?
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| thank you for your help!
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| Dan Walters