Why are you sending these e-mails to me?
R
On 1/14/2011 9:09 AM, openoffice.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:
I missed the bit saying it's an hourly rate, and assumed minutely rate
since you mentioned the time being in minutes; my mistake there. Also
used column A instead of B for the time. In that case, putting in cell
H2:
=B2*24*150
will give the cost of the call logged in that line - B2*24 converts
the time into a number of hours, then multiplied by your hourly rate
(150).
Again, I would suggest putting the hourly rate in a separate cell and
referring to that, so that it is easy to change. Otherwise, you have
to remember to copy the formula down each time the hourly rate is
changed. So, with the hourly rate (150 in your example) in cell J1,
you'd have in H2:
=B2*24*$J$1
To get the total in H1, simply add up all the rows:
=SUM(H2:H65536)
If you don't want the cost of each line itemised, it should be
possible to add up the times and then multiply that total by the
hourly rate:
=SUM(B2:B65536)*24*150
or:
=SUM(B2:B65536)*24*$J$1
Personally, I'd rather have the cost of each line as well as the total
though, as it would be easier to track down errors in the data (e.g.
if the total is ridiculously large, which line is the problem in).
Hope that helps.
Mark.
Amichai Rotman - amic...@iglu.org.il wrote:
Thanks guys,
But - none of it worked...
I'll describe my needs again(disregard the last one):
I have a customer with an hourly rate of 150. Here is what I entered
in the
sheet:
A1: Date (Header) - Column A formated as Date (DD-MM-YYYY)
B1: Time (Header) - Column B formated as Time (HH:MM)
G1: Subtotal - how much to charge this month (Header)
A2: The first line with data - the date of the first call this month
B2: The duration of the call - 00:45 (forty five minutes)
What I want to achieve:
H1 should show me how much I have earned from this customer till now,
so I
need it to multiply 150 by the time I spent for each line
(B2:B32)*150 - or
something like that...
Until now I done this with a pocket calculator, for example:
0.75 (00:45)+0.25(00:15)+1.25(01:15)*150 would give me the sum of
188.50
I just want H1 to reflect that sum if I calculate 150 * (B2:B32)
I hope it is now clearer...
Thanks!
Amichai.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 21:33,<openoffice.mbou...@spamgourmet.com>
wrote:
Dan Lewis - elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 12:48 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
Hey All,
I have a bunch of customers I give phone support to.
I'd like to create a spreadsheet to calculate how much I should
charge
them
each month. Each customer has a different hourly rate.
So, here is what I want to do:
Sheet per customer
For each customer I enter the following:
Column A: Date
Column B: Time (in minutes - HH:MM, 24hrs format)
Column H: A formula to multiply the contents of B2:B32 times hourly
rate....
Obviously I need help with that formula...
Thanks!
Amichai.
Have you set up a spreadsheet the way you stated it above? Is
Column A formatted for dates? Is Column B formatted for time using the
HH:MM format?
Format for entering a formula in a cell:
1. Always begin the formula with an equal sign =.
2. Enter A2 after the equal sign.
3. Enter an asterisk after the A2.
4. Enter the hourly rate R followed by the Enter key.
Do this in cell H2. Then use the up key to move the outlined
rectangle back to H2. The formula in the window should be
=A2*R. (Yes, it is this simple.)
Not quite that simple, unfortunately. If the cells are formatted as
HH:MM
(as Amichai says they are), the numeric value of the cell is the
fraction of
a day that time represents, not the number of minutes. So what
appears as
00:30 (30 minutes) is actually 0.02083333... (=30/(24*60)) as far as
any
formula is concerned.
=A2*60*24*(Rate_per_minute)
should do it - A2*60*24 converts the time into a number of minutes,
then
multiplied by your minutely rate. I'm not sure how reliable that
would be if
A2 is greater than 24 hours, but that probably isn't an issue to you
(unless
you get a lot of very long calls!)
You may want to put the minutely rate in another cell, say J1, and
use the
following in H2:
=A2*60*24*$J$1
Then you can easily change the rate for each customer. Using $J$2
(instead
of just J1) ensures that J1 is used in every line when you copy the
formula
to other cells (as Dan describes below).
Entering a formula into adjacent cells:
1. Place the outlined rectangle in the first cell.
2. Move the cursor over the small square at the bottom right corner
(vortex) or the outlined rectangle. The cursor becomes a small plus
sign
+.
3. Drag and drop the plus sign + to the last cell.
This process can be used to copy a formula in a vertical or
horizontal range of cells.
Begin at cell H2 and drag down to H32. Click any of these
cells to
see the formula entered into that cell.
Another suggestion: Do this for one sheet. Also enter the
Headings
in cells A1, B1, and H1. Now highlight a block of cells containing
columns A through H and rows 1 through 32. A1 should be at the top
left
of this block of cells, and H32 should be at the bottom right of it.
Copy this. In each of the sheets, paste this block of cells into cell
A1. You have now formated the sheets and entered the formulas in
column
H.
Now to modify the formulas of each sheet: click cell H2. The
formula appears in the window above the column headers. Change the
rate
to what you want in that sheet and click the green check mark to the
left of the window. (It only appears after you change something in
this
window.) Now drag and drop the formula down to cell H32. Do this
for all
the cells. You should be good to go.
Dan
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