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March 18th, 2010, 08:05 AM
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Hi All,
I have got a worksheet with cells like: E174 36.992 I need to get that into decimal degrees like E174.61653 Is there a way to do this with a forumla? I start with find, left, right functions, but I ended up parenthesis hell. Cheers -Al 
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March 18th, 2010, 08:30 AM
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Degrees Minutes Decimal Minutes to Decimal Degrees.
"Al" wrote:
I have got a worksheet with cells like: E174 36.992 I need to get that into decimal degrees like E174.61653 One way: =LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1) & TEXT(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(" ",A1))/60,".00000") ----- original message ----- "Al" wrote in message ... Hi All, I have got a worksheet with cells like: E174 36.992 I need to get that into decimal degrees like E174.61653 Is there a way to do this with a forumla? I start with find, left, right functions, but I ended up parenthesis hell. Cheers -Al
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March 18th, 2010, 08:30 AM
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=LEFT(A2)&TEXT(MID(A2,2,FIND(" ",A2)-2)+RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND("
",A2))/60,"#.00000") -- David Biddulph "Al" wrote in message ... Hi All, I have got a worksheet with cells like: E174 36.992 I need to get that into decimal degrees like E174.61653 Is there a way to do this with a forumla? I start with find, left, right functions, but I ended up parenthesis hell. Cheers -Al
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March 18th, 2010, 10:22 AM
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Degrees Minutes Decimal Minutes to Decimal Degrees.
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:05:18 -0700 (PDT), Al wrote:
Hi All, I have got a worksheet with cells like: E174 36.992 I need to get that into decimal degrees like E174.61653 Is there a way to do this with a forumla? I start with find, left, right functions, but I ended up parenthesis hell. Cheers -Al =MID(A1,2,FIND(" ",A1)-2)+MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,99)/60 --ron
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