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RachelHoff
Jun 06, 2019Copper Contributor
Converting time to a digital number
Hello. I used to use MS Office in the 80s and 90s and now I'm getting started with 365, doing freelance work. I'm making a spreadsheet to calculate charges for my work, and have gotten a bit confused...
- Jun 06, 2019
Hi,
The result of the formula is correct, but it appears this way because of cell formatting (Time format).
You need to switch to General or Number format like the below screenshot:
Also, you can apply the format in the formula as follows:
=TEXT((A1-INT(A1))*24,"0.00")
I'd like the mention that the formula can be simplified like this:
=TEXT(A1*24,"0.00")
Hope that helps
Akshay_Mane
Jun 06, 2019Iron Contributor
The easiest way to convert time to decimal in Excel is to multiply the original time value by the number of hours, seconds or minutes in a day:
- To convert time to a number of hours, multiply the time by 24, which is the number of hours in a day.
- To convert time to minutes, multiply the time by 1440, which is the number of minutes in a day (24*60).
- To convert time to seconds, multiply the time time by 86400, which is the number of seconds in a day (24*60*60 ).
Regards,
Akshay
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