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Alter of Excel cell

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Sat, 2006-07-22 07:20
Hady Shendy, PMP
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Hi All
in excel if I need to custom a cell as a duration value
like if I have a cell for "Period for recovery of investment money" value = 11.16 year
how I convert this figure to year:month:day (i.e. 11y:2m:15d)
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Sun, 2006-07-30 09:35
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Hady Shendy, PMP
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Many Thanks zhang
keep in tuch
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Wed, 2006-07-26 21:34
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Zhang Haixiang
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you need some formula,
cell A1 = 11.6 then

year: int(a1)
month: int(mod(a1*365,365)/30)
day:: int(mod(a1*365,30))

you can input the following formula in Cell B1

=int(a1)&"y:"&int(mod(a1*365,365)/30)&"m:"&int(mod(a1*365,30))&"d"

But the result is not 100% acurate, as the caculation is based on 365days/year and 30days/month. Only when you have the start date and finish date then you can get the acurate result
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Mon, 2006-07-24 03:22
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Svein Myklebust
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Why do you need this?

Excels calcualtions on time ar based on days.
Why can’t you just use days?

Svein
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