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Old November 22nd, 2006, 09:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.setup
Charles Belov
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Default Where are the engineering functions?

Excel 2003 help tells me I can use HEX2DEC to convert hexadecimal
numbers to decimal, but when I try to use it in a formula

=HEX2DEC(A2)

Excel changes it to read

=hex2dec(A2)

and displays #NAME? in the spreadsheet.

If I click on fX and select All, HEX2DEC does not appear in the list,
nor does any other of the engineering functions. How do I get them?

Charles "Chas" Belov
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Old November 22nd, 2006, 10:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.setup
Niek Otten
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Default Where are the engineering functions?

From Excel HELP:

If this function is not available, and returns the #NAME? error, install and load the Analysis ToolPak add-in.

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"Charles Belov" wrote in message ...
| Excel 2003 help tells me I can use HEX2DEC to convert hexadecimal
| numbers to decimal, but when I try to use it in a formula
|
| =HEX2DEC(A2)
|
| Excel changes it to read
|
| =hex2dec(A2)
|
| and displays #NAME? in the spreadsheet.
|
| If I click on fX and select All, HEX2DEC does not appear in the list,
| nor does any other of the engineering functions. How do I get them?
|
| Charles "Chas" Belov


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Old November 22nd, 2006, 11:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.setup
Gord Dibben
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Default Where are the engineering functions?

If you went to Help and looked for HEX2DEC you would see it is a Function from
the Analysis ToolPak which must be loaded through ToolsAdd-ins.

Now the #NAME? will go away as Help pointed out.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:55:40 -0800, Charles Belov
wrote:

Excel 2003 help tells me I can use HEX2DEC to convert hexadecimal
numbers to decimal, but when I try to use it in a formula

=HEX2DEC(A2)

Excel changes it to read

=hex2dec(A2)

and displays #NAME? in the spreadsheet.

If I click on fX and select All, HEX2DEC does not appear in the list,
nor does any other of the engineering functions. How do I get them?

Charles "Chas" Belov


 




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