Question

G’day,
I have never really used excel formulas before but need to convert a sexigismal long/lat point to decimal degrees. This is easy enough, e.g.,

if Easting = 29 44.135′ => 29 + (44.135*1/60) => 29.73558333 E

The problem I have is that the 29 44.135 is in one cell and I don’t know how to individually specify the separate parts of this number to write out the above formula.

Any help would be great, thanks in advance!

Regards,
Adam

Answer 1

Assuming the two parts are separated by a single space:

=LEFT(A1,SEARCH(" ",A1)-1) + MID(A1,SEARCH(" ",A1)+1,LEN(A1)-SEARCH(" ",A1)-1)*1/60