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Old March 13th, 2010, 03:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
losing it
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Default Formulas using time and dates

As a relative newbie to excel formulas I'm having great difficulty creating a
formula where I need to add 168 hours to a date/time. After two days of
trying I'm losing my mind :-(

Column A contains the Date/Time (I've tried many formats to no avail) and I
need column B to show the result of adding 168 hours to A1. Any help might
keep from the asylum.

I've have read and re-read Chip Pearson's great work and still can't figure
this out!
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Old March 13th, 2010, 04:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
FSt1
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Default Formulas using time and dates

hi
apparently you are trying to make it WAY more complicated than it really is.
it's simple math....once you understand how xl keeps datea and time
in B1 enter.....=A1+(168/24)
format B1 as date or date+time.
i was going to recomend chip's site but if you have already read it then you
are having trouble grasping the concept.
but here is the site anyway to make sure we're on the same page.
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetime.htm

read it again.

Regards
FSt1

"losing it" wrote:

As a relative newbie to excel formulas I'm having great difficulty creating a
formula where I need to add 168 hours to a date/time. After two days of
trying I'm losing my mind :-(

Column A contains the Date/Time (I've tried many formats to no avail) and I
need column B to show the result of adding 168 hours to A1. Any help might
keep from the asylum.

I've have read and re-read Chip Pearson's great work and still can't figure
this out!

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Old March 14th, 2010, 01:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
losing it[_2_]
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Default Formulas using time and dates

Just to show how close I was to the asylum.....I spent two hours plugging
your formula into my equation verbatum only to find my actual data was
located in A2 instead of A1 :-) Thanks sooooo much for saving me from myself!

"FSt1" wrote:

hi
apparently you are trying to make it WAY more complicated than it really is.
it's simple math....once you understand how xl keeps datea and time
in B1 enter.....=A1+(168/24)
format B1 as date or date+time.
i was going to recomend chip's site but if you have already read it then you
are having trouble grasping the concept.
but here is the site anyway to make sure we're on the same page.
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetime.htm

read it again.

Regards
FSt1

"losing it" wrote:

As a relative newbie to excel formulas I'm having great difficulty creating a
formula where I need to add 168 hours to a date/time. After two days of
trying I'm losing my mind :-(

Column A contains the Date/Time (I've tried many formats to no avail) and I
need column B to show the result of adding 168 hours to A1. Any help might
keep from the asylum.

I've have read and re-read Chip Pearson's great work and still can't figure
this out!

 




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