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Xcell time/currency calculations.

 
 
Jasen Betts
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      09-03-2007
On 2007-08-21, Crash <> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:47:13 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
><_zealand> wrote:
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>>In message <>, Crash wrote:
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>>> I am using Excel from Office 2003 with XP PRO. I cant get time #
>>> hourly rate to work. The formula is =B25*B26. B25 is 6:00 with the
>>> cell formatted as 'custom h:mm'. B26 is $65.00 formatted as 'Currency
>>> -$1234.10' with 2 decimals. The receiving cell is the same format as
>>> B26 and has the value of $16.25 (? - should be $390.00).
>>>
>>> Can anyone identify what is wrong here?

>>
>>What are the actual (i.e. not formatted) values in the cells?

>
> To the best of my knowledge those are the actual values - if there is
> a way of viewing 'unformatted' values then I don't know it.


time is measured (numerically) in days. (not hours, minutes, or seconds)

multiply by 24.

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Jasen Betts
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      09-03-2007
On 2007-08-21, Alan <> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Excel treats dates and times (essentially the same thing) as the
> number of days from 1 Jan 1900 (ignoring some legacy issues).


It's the number of days since 31 december 1899 (except before march 1900)

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