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Excell mm:ss.00 to ss.00

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

In order to convert time in hours:minutes:seconds.milliseconds (hh:mm:ss.00) in excel, simply set the cell format to “[ss].00″. This is a custom format.

Make sure that you have enough s’s to cover the number of seconds there will be. e.g if the format is [ss].00 and your data is 3 minutes, then although you have 180 seconds, this will only appear as 80.00. If the cell format is [sss].oo you will get 180.00

Took me an age to figure out without the use of muliplication!

Gadzooks.

Over and out!

Microsoft Word – check!

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

This might be common knowledge, bu-ut as it took me hours (read as “15 long minutes”) to figure it out, I thought I’d share the wealth!!

In order to insert a tick into your word document, you need to go to Insert -> Symbol and then change the font to any variation of wingdings, and find yourself a tick!

Obvious now, but wasn’t when I desperately needed one.

Sigh.

Over and out.