Worksheet Properties via a Menu
Hidden away, well actually it’s just found on the Developer Tab, in Excel 2007 and 2010 is a Properties Button.
The properties Button is generally used for configuring Active X controls, where all the parameters of the control can be set.
One other useful feature of the Properties Button is that it directly accesses several features of a Worksheets properties.
Most of these properties are usually only accessed via VBA code.
Where’s the Developers Tab
The developers Tab is enabled by going to the Excel Options menu (next to the Exit Excel button),
On the Popular Tab, select Enable Developer Tab on the Ribbon
Use
To use these functions select a cell on a worksheet and press the Properties Button.
A Properties window will be shown, showing the following properties:
Display Page Breaks
Displays Page Breaks if set to True;
Default is False, Don’t display page breaks
Display Right to Left
Enable Right to Left Page Layout if set to True. This will put Column A on the Right Hand side of the screen and Columns B… will then be to the left of Column A.
Default is False
Enable Autofilter
Enables or Disables the AutoFilter arrows on a protected worksheet
Default is False (Arrows are disabled)
Enable Calculation
Totally disables calculation of the current sheet
Using F9 does not force calculation.
Default is False, Calculation is enabled
Enable Format Conditions Calculation
When set to True (default), evaluation of conditional formats will will occur automatically as needed.
When set to False, conditional formats will not be re-evaluated. Any previously applied conditional formatting will still be visible, but it will not update as cell values are changed.
The purpose of this flag is to allow VBA programmers to configure a rule completely before evaluating it. This is particularly useful when condition is applied over a large range as performance can be slow in these cases.
Enable Outlining
Enables outlining symbols on a protected worksheet
Default is False, Outline symbols disabled
Enable PivotTable
This enables PivotTable controls on a protected worksheet
Default is False, PivotTable controls are disabled
Enable Selection
Show and Enable the selection status of cells
Value Status
0 No Restrictions
1 Locked Cells
-4142 No Selection
These are only relevant when the Page is Locked
Name
Shows and allows you to rename the current Worksheet
Default is the current Worksheets Name
Scroll Area
Allows the definition of a Scroll Area where the user cannot move out of
Eg: Enter D10:M40 to restrict user interaction to this area
Default is Blank – Scroll area not set
Standard Width
Shows and allows you to set the default column Width in Standard Character Widths
Default is 8.43
This value represents the number of characters that can be displayed in a cell that is formatted with the standard font (standard font: The default text font for worksheets. The standard font determines the default font for the Normal cell style.).
Visible
Show or set the current sheets visibility status
Value Status
-1 Visible
0 Hidden
2 Very Hidden
Obviously once a sheet is Hidden or Very hidden it isn’t available to select to enable the properties menu and so this can only be used to hide but not unhide Worksheets.
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13 Responses to “Convert fractional Excel time to hours & minutes [Quick tip]”
Hi Purna..
Again a great tip.. Its a great way to convert Fractional Time..
By the way.. Excel has two great and rarely used formula..
=DOLLARFR(7.8,60) and =DOLLARDE(7.48,60)
basically US Account person uses those to convert some currency denomination.. and we can use it to convert Year(i.e 3.11 Year = 3 year 11 month) and Week(6.5 week = 6 week 5 days), in the same manner...
This doesn't work for me. When applying the custom format of [h]:mm to 7.8 I get 187:12
Any ideas why?
@Jason
7.8 in Excel talk means 7.8 days
=7.8*24
=187.2 Hrs
=187 Hrs 12 Mins
If you follow Chandoo's instructions you will see that he divides the 7.8 by 24 to get it to a fraction of a day
Simple, assuming the fractional time is in cell A1,
Use below steps to convert it to hours & minutes:
1. In the target cell, write =A1/24
2. Select the target cell and press CTRL+1 to format it (you can also right click and select format cells)
3. Select Custom from “Number” tab and enter the code [h]:mm
4. Done!
Hi, sorry to point this out but Column C Header is misspelt 'Hours Palyed'
good one
So how do I go the other way and get hours and minutes to fractional time?
If you have 7.5 in cell A1,
- Use int(A1) to get the hours.
- Use mod(A1,1)*60 to get minutes.
If you have 7:30 (formatted as time) in A1
- Use hours(a1) to get hours
- Use minutes(a1) to get minutes.
I had the same issue. You can solve it by changing the format as described above:
Right click cell > Format Cells > (In Number tab) > Custom > Then enter the code [h]:mm
([hh]:mm and [hhh]:mm are nice too if you want to show leading zeros)
Thanks guys, these are the tips I'm looking for.
...dividing the number of minutes elapsed by the percent change is my task - "int" is the key this time
It doesnt work for greater than 24 hours
It returns 1:30 for 25.5 hours. It should have returned 25:30
Ideally I would right function as
=QUOTIENT(A1,1)&":"&MOD(A1,1)*60
Sorry, replied to wrong comment....
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I had the same issue. You can solve it by changing the format as described above:
Right click cell > Format Cells > (In Number tab) > Custom > Then enter the code [h]:mm
([hh]:mm and [hhh]:mm are nice too if you want to show leading zeros)
Clever use of MOD here to extract the decimal part of a number. Divide a number containing a decimal by 1 and return the remainder. Humm. Very clever.
Thanks very much, extremely useful !