I have the following number 232.5 which is 232 hours and 0.5 of an hour. I
want to convert this to 232 hours and 30 minutes or 232:30. How can i do
this? I know i need to multiply the decimal by 60, but how can i perform a
calculation on just the decimal part of a number and not the whole number?

Depending what you wish to do excel stores times as well as dates as
numbers, with 1 being a full day. An option is to divide everything by
24 and use a custom format of dd hh:mm although this will express the
hours as days and hours

It depends what you want to do really


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suppose you have 232.5 in cell A1. in cell B1 type
=((A1-ROUNDDOWN(A1,0))*60/100)+ROUNDDOWN(A1,0)

That should do the trick.

Steven.

"Jack" wrote:

I have the following number 232.5 which is 232 hours and 0.5 of an hour. I
want to convert this to 232 hours and 30 minutes or 232:30. How can i do
this? I know i need to multiply the decimal by 60, but how can i perform a
calculation on just the decimal part of a number and not the whole number?

Divide by 24 and format the resultant cell as [h]:mm

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Bob Phillips

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"Jack" wrote in message
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I have the following number 232.5 which is 232 hours and 0.5 of an hour. I
want to convert this to 232 hours and 30 minutes or 232:30. How can i do
this? I know i need to multiply the decimal by 60, but how can i perform a
calculation on just the decimal part of a number and not the whole number?

Thanks Bob. I played around with custom formats, but could not get it right.
This works perfectly.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Divide by 24 and format the resultant cell as [h]:mm

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Bob Phillips

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"Jack" wrote in message
...
I have the following number 232.5 which is 232 hours and 0.5 of an hour. I
want to convert this to 232 hours and 30 minutes or 232:30. How can i do
this? I know i need to multiply the decimal by 60, but how can i perform a
calculation on just the decimal part of a number and not the whole number?