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ResolvedVersion 2007

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What is the formula to use to calculate square feet/metres? I can't find it in the formulae ribbon. For example how yould you calculate the area of 5.2m x 2.9m ?
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Wendy

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Hello Wendy

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

When you create a formula, you can't refer to cells that have a combination of numbers and letters in them - Excel can only use cells that have numbers only in them to figure out a result for you.

What I would suggest is putting 5.2 in one cell (e.g. A1) and 2.9 in another (e.g. B1).

Then in a third cell put in your formula =A1*B1

I hope this helps.

Kind regards
Amanda

Wed 16 Sep 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.

 

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