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Are there any add-ins that lets a cell be formated or defined as a quantity with units?
It just occured to me that a really nice feature of Excel would be to
keep track of units if you wanted it to. It is part way there with the CONVERT() function, but what I would envision would be to be able formate a cell as a special kind of number that has units associated with it. So when you take 2 cells with ft as units that it knows the the resulting value has units of feet squared. |
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Are there any add-ins that lets a cell be formated or defined as a
If you just want the cell formatted, try
Format/Cells/Custom #" ft²" The superscript 2 is created by holding down the Alt key and typing 0178 on the number keypad (not from the number row above the keyboard). " wrote: It just occured to me that a really nice feature of Excel would be to keep track of units if you wanted it to. It is part way there with the CONVERT() function, but what I would envision would be to be able formate a cell as a special kind of number that has units associated with it. So when you take 2 cells with ft as units that it knows the the resulting value has units of feet squared. |
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Are there any add-ins that lets a cell be formated or defined as a quantity with units?
Excel already has this feature.
A1 has 4 B1 has 5 C1 has =A1*B1 which returns 20 Custom Format to 0"ft" and Alt + 0178 Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On 30 Apr 2007 15:28:51 -0700, wrote: It just occured to me that a really nice feature of Excel would be to keep track of units if you wanted it to. It is part way there with the CONVERT() function, but what I would envision would be to be able formate a cell as a special kind of number that has units associated with it. So when you take 2 cells with ft as units that it knows the the resulting value has units of feet squared. |
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