Converting Formulas To Values Using Excel

In this article, we will learn about how to use the CONVERT function in Excel.

The CONVERT function converts the value of one measurement to another measurement. For example, weight measurements like pounds to gallons, length measurements like meters to feet or temperature measurements like Degree Celsius to Fahrenheit, etc.

Now that we know the intercept and slope of the least-squares best-fit line, we can actually calculate the values of that line for each solution (the 'y-hat' value) using another formula. These calculated values are point estimates of the true absorbance of each solution. You can calculate the first value easily enough, as shown in the next. The formula uses the Excel VALUE function to convert the text numbers, captured in cell B5, to a numeric value.

Here are the types of measurements with their keywords which can be used to convert values.

Weight

gramg
slugsg
Pound masslbm
Uu
ounce massozm
graingrain
U.S. hundredweightcwt or shweight
Imperial hundredweightuk_cwt or lcwt
stonestone
tonton
Imperial tonuk_ton or LTON

Distance

Meterm
Statute milemi
Nautical milenmi
inchin
footft
yardyd
Angstromang
ellell
Light yearly
Parsecpc
picapica

Time

yearyr
dayday
hourhr
minutemn or min
secondsec or s

Pressure

Pascalpa
Atmosphereatm
mm of mercurymmHg
PSIpsi
TorrTorr

Force

NewtonN
Dynedyn
Pound forcelbf
Pondpond

Energy

JouleJ
Erge
Thermodynamic caloriec
IT caloriecal
Electron - volteV
Horsepower - hourHph
Watt - hourWh
Foot - poundflb
BTUBTU

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Power

HorsepowerHP
PferdestärkePS
WattW

Temperature

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Degree CelsiusC
Degree FahrenheitF
KelvinK
Degree RankineRank
Degree RéaumurReau

Liquid Measure

TeaspoonTsp
Modern Teaspoontspm
Cupcup
U.S. pintpt
U.K. pintuk_pt
Quartqt
Imperial quartuk_qt
Gallongal
Imperial gallonuk_gal
Litrel

Volume

Cubic angstromang3
U.S. oil barrelbarrel
U.S. bushelbushel
Cubic feetft3
Cubic inchin3
Cubic light-yearly3
Cubic meterm3
Cubic Milemi3
Cubic yardyd3
Cubic nautical milenmi3
Cubic Picapica3
Measurement ton (freight ton)MTON
Gross Registered TonGRT (regton)

Area

International acreuk_acre
statute acreus_acre
Square angstromand2
Arear
Square feetft2
Hectareha
Square inchesin2
Square light-yearly2
Square metersm2
Morgenmorgen
Square milesmi2
Square nautical milesnmi2
Square Picapica2
Square yardsyd2

Information

Bitbit
Bytebyte

CONVERT function takes three arguments and returns the number after conversion to_unit mentioned as argument
Syntax:

Number : number to convert
From_unit : unit of the number
To_unit : unit, number to be converted to

Let’s understand this function using it as an example.
Here we have a set of numbers in A2 : A10 and we need to convert the numbers from_unit to to_unit.
For the first number, we need to convert the number from one pound mass to kilograms.

Use the formula:

= CONVERT ( A2, B2, C2 )


Here all the arguments to the function are given as cell reference.

Press Enter to get the result.
One pound mass is equal to 0.454 kilograms. See you didn't have to use your calculator for this and it's easy to use.

Now copy the formula to get different CONVERT values to the remaining cells and formula as shown in the snapshot below.
As you can see from the outcomes in the snapshot above. The function returns an error in D8 cell as conversion between two different measurements is not possible.

Converting Formulas To Values Using Excel

Use the prefix measurements as shown in the table below.
Prefixes

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yottaY
zettaZ
exaE
petaP
teraT
gigaG
megaM
kilok
hectoh
dekaoda
decid
centic
millim
microu
nanon
picop
femtof
attoa
zeptoz
yoctoy

Use the above prefixes for accurate values.

Here are some of the observations gathered using the CONVERT function.

Note:

  1. The CONVERT function returns #VALUE! Error if the data type argument is non -numeric.
  2. The CONVERT function is case sensitive function.
  3. The CONVERT function returns #NA error :
    1. If the unit is invalid or doesn't exist.
    2. If unit's prefix is invalid.
    3. If the units belong to the different groups.

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