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Default Converting total number of hours (24 hours) into days

To get a whole number as number of hours, multiply by 24
So for workdays, divide by 8 and multiply by 24
Times in Excel are stored as fractions of a day

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Niek Otten
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"MV Rao" wrote in message ...
|I have a series of cells containing time spent. When I sum them up, it is 24
| hours. When I format the cell with [h]:mm, I can see the total correctly. But
| I want to calculate number of days by dividing this hours by 8. How do I do
| it?
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| MV Rao, VP