Floyd,
Since you need 36000 per hour, dividing by 36000 gives the number of hours.
Dividing by 24 puts it into the time format that Excel uses, which is 1 = 1
day = 24 hrs.
Bernie
"Floyd Forbes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thank you. It works, but why A1/36000/24 works?
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> "Bernie Deitrick" <deitbe @ consumer dot org> wrote in message
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>> If the number of items is in cell A1, then
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>> =A1/36000/24
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>> and formatted for time will show the time in hrs:mm:ss that it should
>> take to run.
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>> HTH,
>> Bernie
>> MS Excel MVP
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>> "Floyd Forbes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>> Help!
>>> If a person require to run 36000 items per hour. How do I
>>> show in excel converting 36000 to one hour using time format.
>>> I tried 36000/60/60 = 0:00:00 did not work.
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>>> Thanks
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