alan smith wrote:

> So ive got it left justified, high byte being the upper 8 bits and low
> byte upper two bits being the lowest two bits...that made sense right? 
> 
> Say we have the value 0x79C0, I want to have excel strip off the lower 6
> bits and convert to decimal. And so I get the final result of 487.  Is
> there a simple way in excel to do this? 

This is not quite clear, to me at least. All the others seemed to think
that you are sending the /string/ "0x79C0" to Excel (or typing this
string). Is that what you are doing?

How and in what form do you put the data into Excel?

Gerhard
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