In a nutshell I'm trying to build a custom timesheet that automatically calculates hourly pay and so forth and I'm stuck on the following problem.
How do I make Google Sheets calculate the simple decimal of hours worked? I want to enter a start and end time and produce an output like the following.
In Out Total
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|7:30 | 12:00 | 4.5 |
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Best Answer
Google Spreadsheets stores time/date in multiples of days. (Or, more accurately, in a number since an "epoch" date.)
So,
=B2-A2
in cell C2 will give you 0.1875, assuming you have the cell formatted as a number and not a date.Changing that to
=(B2-A2)*24
will give you the value in hours, or4.5
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