I have set up a little spreadsheet using "start time" and "end time". The
resulting difference is expressed in hours and minutes. I would like to use
this figure to calculate pay. It is not doing that because of the
formating. Is there a way?

since one hour in Excel - 1/24 do as follows

=total_time*24*hourly_rate

format as currency or else you'll get a weird time value


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Peo Sjoblom



"Bob Morrison" wrote in message
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I have set up a little spreadsheet using "start time" and "end time". The
resulting difference is expressed in hours and minutes. I would like to
use this figure to calculate pay. It is not doing that because of the
formating. Is there a way?

Multiply the elapsed time by 24, (hours in a day) thus:

=(B1-A1)*24 and format as General or Number

or to calculate the pay:

=(B1-A1)*24* PAYRATE

and format a currency.
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"Bob Morrison" wrote in message
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I have set up a little spreadsheet using "start time" and "end time". The
resulting difference is expressed in hours and minutes. I would like to
use this figure to calculate pay. It is not doing that because of the
formating. Is there a way?