With number of cars in A1 (eg 12) and number of employees in A2 (eg
25), this formula:

=TEXT(A1,"0 : ")&A2

will give you a ratio in the form:

12 : 25

However, you could not do any arithmetic on this or use it to carry
out arithmetic - but, all you need to do is use the values in A1 and
A2 directly.

Hope this helps.

Pete


On Feb 2, 12:15*pm, shak wrote:
I have two figures one representing the number of employees in a
company and the other the number of shared cars. I want to find the
ration of employee to cars such as 1:4 and then have *an optimal ratio
such as 1:2, calculate the difference between optimum ratio and actual
ratio and then in another cell display the number of cars to add to
fleet to arrive at the optimum ratio. How would you do that?

Any help would be appreciated.
Shak