In excel I have to keep start and finish times for different product
movements, I am constantly figuring the # of hours and mins. EXAMPLE  start  
date 8/12/2005 time 13:15, finish date 8/13/2005 time 05:35 equals 16 hrs and
20 minutes. Can excel figure this for me or am I out of ...

need step by step instructions to extract data from column A starting with A1
and grab A4, A7, A10, A13, etc.

Is there a function that counts a cell if it contains a value rather than
equals that value?
For example, I'd like to count the number of cells that contain the word
"dog".

I have three columns of data. The first column is the ID of a particular
Coin Flipper. The second is the number of coin flips each Coin Flipper
flips. The third column is the probability of each flipper flipping a
heads—these probabilities are different for each Flipper, but the ...

I am woking on a spreadsheet and i need a running total on the hours worked
for by staff.
This is the way inwitch the data is set out.
08:30-21:00

Is there anything I can do to get a cell to show how many times the sam
data is entered.
Example
1 A

Im working on a Spreadsheet and i need the formula to work out the hours
worked.
The format of the way that the data is recived is for example 12:00-20:00 so
i need to to tell me that there has been 8 hours worked.

I have a user who is doing a repetitive action in a spreadsheet
and I'm wondering if there's a better way to do what she's doing. Let me
explain the process.
Sue has a folder that contains 250-300 *.PDF files that have a naming

How many std deviations is Excel function "STDEVP"

Excel Experts
When inserting Subtotals, isn't there a way to get the results without
having the word "Total" appended to each Totaled Item?
I knew this once.

How can I format a column so that it only accepts unique values?
Thanks!

i have a spread sheet 32 columns in length and if column b = paper then i
want the cursor to move to column h after i have entered details from column
a to column d and then if column b = book then i want the cursor to move to
column m and so forth.

In Office 2003 I need to make a formula that will add up every fourth cell in
a given column (i.e. A8,A12,A16,A20,etc). This range extends beyond 30
entries (one for each work day for a year) so entering each one individually
will not work. I haven't been able to find anything in ...

I'm calculating the difference between two dates, such as
A1 - 1st September
B1 - 10th September
So B1-A1 returns 9, which is great.

I have a huge number of comma delimited excel worksheets and need to copy or
append them into a single worksheet.  There are over 7000 records on some 300
worksheets, so doing a manual copy and paste would take a lot of time.
If I cannot do that in Excel, is there a way to do this ...