convert lats and longs to decimals

[dharmik]

I have latitudes and longitudes in two different columns. these are expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds, with North or West labelled as well.
I would like to know if there is a formula i can use in another column to convert these into degrees with decimals, rather than degrees minutes and second. this formula should be something I can drag for the remaining rows, because I have a huge amount of data.


E.g. Column 1 Column 2
27° 44' 08.00" N 92° 44' 28.00" W

i want it as
27.7355 92.7411


Regards,

dharmik

[SteveG]

Check out Chip Pearson's site. It should have what you are looking for.


http://www.cpearson.com/excel/latlong.htm

Regards,

Steve