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I work in engineering and use many spreadsheets to do alot of work for me.
The problem is that if I'm working with imperial measure, I have to convert
to metric then covert back to imperial. Is there any ways to easily work with
feet and inches that i'm not seeing?
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See the DOLLARFR and DOLLARDE functions in the Analysis Tool Pak.
See also http://www.cpearson.com/excel/fractional.htm .


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I work in engineering and use many spreadsheets to do alot of
work for me.
The problem is that if I'm working with imperial measure, I
have to convert
to metric then covert back to imperial. Is there any ways to
easily work with
feet and inches that i'm not seeing?



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Have you thought of entering data in this form 5 2/12 for 5' 2"
You will need to custom format the cells as # ?/12 to prevent Excel changing
the example to 5 1/6
Use the same format for cells where you convert back to US measurements, so
4.75 will show as 4 8/12
Also see Chips stuff at www.cpearson.com
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I work in engineering and use many spreadsheets to do alot of work for me.
The problem is that if I'm working with imperial measure, I have to
convert
to metric then covert back to imperial. Is there any ways to easily work
with
feet and inches that i'm not seeing?



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