Create your own formula to convert the degrees, minutes and seconds used in geography to a decimal number. DMS map coordinates consist of whole number degrees that are divided into 60 minutes.

The DEC2BIN function in Microsoft Excel is an Engineering function, and its purpose is to convert a decimal number to binary. The formula for the DEC2BIN is DEC2BIN( Number, [Places]).

Can Excel do that? A. Sure can, and here’s how it’s done: Highlight the decimal numbers you want to convert to fractions and then right-click, selecting Format Cells and the Number tag.

Excel 2007 has troubles with multiplication when the result is 65,535--a number familiar to those who've dealt with binary numbers.

First, Excel recognizes values formatted as Currency or Accounting number formats as financial values, so the program automatically adds two decimal places (you can change the number of decimal ...