Cell Formatting
I am looking for a way to get excel to recognize the
number system used in my company's software. Lengths are written as 27-2, 15-0, 6-8 with the first number being feet, and the second number being inches. I need to be able to add up all the lengths in excel. When I try to import the length information from my software, excel reads them as dates of some sort, and adds up the serial numbers that stand for each date. What I need is for 27 ft. 2 in., or 27-2 to register as 27.166. I dont know how to format the cells so that they will read that. |
Cell Formatting
try to set number format to Custom, with: # ??/12
this is not what you want, because 27.166666 will be seen as: 27 2/12 but is close to the one you want. Francisco Mariscal -----Original Message----- I am looking for a way to get excel to recognize the number system used in my company's software. Lengths are written as 27-2, 15-0, 6-8 with the first number being feet, and the second number being inches. I need to be able to add up all the lengths in excel. When I try to import the length information from my software, excel reads them as dates of some sort, and adds up the serial numbers that stand for each date. What I need is for 27 ft. 2 in., or 27-2 to register as 27.166. I dont know how to format the cells so that they will read that. . |
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