Re: !!!Homework Help!!!

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From: Earl Kiosterud (nowhere_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:32:43 -0400

S,

Tell us what you have in your cells. If you're typed "1 foot 6 inches,"
you'll not be able to do anything much with that. If you've put the feet
and inches in separate columns, you can. Or if you've put 1.5 feet, you can
scale that also. 

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Earl Kiosterud
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"SMonczka" <smonczka@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:dc4d941d.0405210624.7950fd4@posting.google.com...
> I am trying to help my 12 year old son with a math project for school.
>  He has to make a scale model of our house.  Being the computer wiz
> that I am I suggested that we take the measurements that he had
> compiled of the house and put them in the computer.  Then let Excel
> scale the measurements for him.  This didn't work very well.  Excel
> doesn't seem to recognize one foot as being 12 inches.  In other words
> 1 foot 6 inches ends up being 1.5 feet.  This causes a problem when
> trying to actually build the model.
>
> What I need to know is.
>
> Is there a way to scale measurements in Excel?  I want to be able to
> say that if 1 foot equals ½ inch the 18 feet 4 inches equals "?".  Is
> this possible?
>
> Thanks
> Steve

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