Damn! I forgot about the newsreader breaking lines at spaces. Here is the
same formula broken so that the newreader won't do that...

=INT(A1)&" hour"&IF(INT(A1)=1," ","s ")&MINUTE(A1/24)&
" minute"&IF(MINUTE(A1/24)=1,"","s")

Rick


"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote in
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Although perhaps this would be better...

=INT(A1)&" hour"&IF(INT(A1)=1," ","s ")&MINUTE(A1/24)&"
minute"&IF(MINUTE(A1/24)=1,"","s")

as it properly handles the "s" (plural/single) for when either/both the
hours and minutes are 1.

Rick


"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote in
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I think you can do away with the two string function calls by doing
this...

=INT(A1)&" hours "&MINUTE(A1/24)&" minutes"

Rick


"T. Valko" wrote in message
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"237 hours 50 minutes". if i can get with text, that would be great.

A1 = decimal value = 237.83

=INT(A1)&" hours "&RIGHT(TEXT(A1/24,"h:mm"),2)&" mins"

Returns: 237 hours 49 mins

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Josh" wrote in message
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i want to display my vacation hours as as hours and minutes. right now
lets
say i have 237.83 displayed. i would like to find a way to display this
as
"237 hours 50 minutes". if i can get with text, that would be great. if
not,
i can work with that as well.