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This document provides instructions and sample code for converting between angular measurements expressed in degrees/minutes/seconds (DMS) and decimal degrees in Microsoft Excel 2000. It includes a custom function to convert a decimal degree value to a DMS text string, and another to convert a DMS text string to a decimal degree value. Both functions are provided as examples for users to copy and paste into a VBA module in Excel.

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Convert Dms Deg

This document provides instructions and sample code for converting between angular measurements expressed in degrees/minutes/seconds (DMS) and decimal degrees in Microsoft Excel 2000. It includes a custom function to convert a decimal degree value to a DMS text string, and another to convert a DMS text string to a decimal degree value. Both functions are provided as examples for users to copy and paste into a VBA module in Excel.

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Article ID: 213449 - View products that this article applies to.

This article was previously published under Q213449

For a Microsoft Excel 97 version of this article, see 121944 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/121944/ ) .

For a Microsoft Excel 98 version of this article, see 192367 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192367/ ) .

SUMMARY

Angular measurements are commonly expressed in units of degrees, minutes, and seconds (DMS). One degree equals 60 minutes, and one minute equals 60
seconds. To simplify some mathematical calculations you may want to express angular measurements in degrees and decimal fractions of degrees.

This article contains a sample custom function you can use to convert a degree value stored in decimal format, to DMS stored in text format, and a sample
function that converts DMS to a degree value stored in decimal format.

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Converting Decimal Degrees to Degrees/Minutes/Seconds


The following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications custom function accepts an angle formatted as a decimal value and converts it to a text value displayed in
degrees, minutes, and seconds.

Function Convert_Degree(Decimal_Deg) As Variant With Application 'Set degree to Integer of Argument Passed Degrees = Int
(Decimal_Deg) 'Set minutes to 60 times the number to the right 'of the decimal for the variable Decimal_Deg Minutes =
(Decimal_Deg ­ Degrees) * 60 'Set seconds to 60 times the number to the right of the 'decimal for the variable Minute Seconds =
Format(((Minutes ­ Int(Minutes)) * 60), "0") 'Returns the Result of degree conversion '(for example, 10.46 = 10~ 27 ' 36")
Convert_Degree = " " & Degrees & "° " & Int(Minutes) & "' " _ & Seconds + Chr(34) End With End Function

To use this function, create a conversion formula, as in the following example:

1. Start Excel and press ALT+F11 to start the Visual Basic editor.
2. On the Insert menu, click Module.
3. Enter the sample code for the Convert_Degree custom function described above into the module sheet.
4. Press ALT+F11 to return to excel.
5. In cell A1 type 10.46.
6. In cell A2 type the following formula:
=Convert_Degree(A1)

The formula returns 10°27'36"

Converting Degrees/Minutes/Seconds to Decimal Degrees


The following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications custom function accepts a text string of degrees, minutes and seconds formatted in the exact same format
that the Convert_Degree function returns (for example, 10° 27' 36") and converts it to an angle formatted as a decimal value. This is exactly the reverse of the
Convert_Degree custom function.

WARNING: This custom function fails if the Degree_Deg argument is not in the following format

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< degrees>° <minutes>' <seconds>"

even if the seconds value is 0.


Function Convert_Decimal(Degree_Deg As String) As Double ' Declare the variables to be double precision floating­point. Dim
degrees As Double Dim minutes As Double Dim seconds As Double ' Set degree to value before "°" of Argument Passed. degrees =
Val(Left(Degree_Deg, InStr(1, Degree_Deg, "°") ­ 1)) ' Set minutes to the value between the "°" and the "'" ' of the text
string for the variable Degree_Deg divided by ' 60. The Val function converts the text string to a number. minutes = Val(Mid
(Degree_Deg, InStr(1, Degree_Deg, "°") + 2, _ InStr(1, Degree_Deg, "'") ­ InStr(1, Degree_Deg, _ "°") ­ 2)) / 60 ' Set seconds
to the number to the right of "'" that is ' converted to a value and then divided by 3600. seconds = Val(Mid(Degree_Deg, InStr
(1, Degree_Deg, "'") + _ 2, Len(Degree_Deg) ­ InStr(1, Degree_Deg, "'") ­ 2)) _ / 3600 Convert_Decimal = degrees + minutes +
seconds End Function

To use this function, create a conversion formula, as in the following example:

1. Start Excel and press ALT+F11 to start the Visual Basic Editor.
2. On the Insert menu, click Module.
3. Enter the sample code for the Convert_Decimal custom function described above into the module sheet.
4. Press ALT+F11 to return to excel.
5. In cell A1 type the following formula:
=Convert_Decimal("10° 27' 36""")

NOTE: You are required to type three quotation marks (""") at the end of the argument of this formula to balance the quotation mark for the seconds and
the quotation mark for the text string. A cell reference will not require a quotation mark.
6. The formula returns 10.46

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Article ID: 213449 - Last Review: November 23, 2006 - Revision: 4.6
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