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    Hello again everyone!

    This basic user has hit a road block. Can somebody see my error(s)?

    Please see the "Statistics" sheet. Trying to find the answer to how much we are making per hour. Tried by converting the total hours to decimal and maybe that is where I went wrong...

    Can someone help? I have spent weeks on this. What have I missed?
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    Re: ARGH! Time format is off BAD and more...

    177:37:00*24 =177.6166667 hrs
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    Re: ARGH! Time format is off BAD and more...

    Hi

    you have data in columns e and d that looks like times but in fact are not.

    if you replace your data with true times then in column L the formula

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    The format for Time is under custom and looks like "hh:mm:ss" just delete the ":ss" and click ok.

    Your original data will be displayed as "00:00" because Excel thinks that any number over zero is a date.

    For hours you need to divide by 24 so 11 am = 11/24 an d11 pm =s 23/24

    For minutes you need to divide by 1440 so 53 minutes = 53/1440

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    Re: ARGH! Time format is off BAD and more...

    thats neither her nor there! op knows that hence the formula in col p that works
    (but =TEXT(F3,"00\:00")-TEXT(E3,"00\:00") would work and is shorter)
    op wants decimal time for 177:37:00 which is simply
    177:37:00*24
    then that would give an average per hour of $4,488.00/177.6166667
    which =25.26789903

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    Awesome. Thank you all for your input. This makes sense now. Sometimes Excel formulas get me twisted-up.

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