OCT2HEX function

Category: Engineering
Introduced: Excel 2003

Summary

Converts an octal number to hexadecimal

Syntax

OCT2HEX(number, [places]) The OCT2HEX function syntax has the following arguments:
• Number Required. The octal number you want to convert. Number may not contain more than 10 octal characters (30 bits). The most significant bit of number is the sign bit. The remaining 29 bits are magnitude bits. Negative numbers are represented using two's-complement notation.
• Places Optional. The number of characters to use. If places is omitted, OCT2HEX uses the minimum number of characters necessary. Places is useful for padding the return value with leading 0s (zeros).

Example

=OCT2HEX(100, 4)
=OCT2HEX(7777777533)

Microsoft Support Page

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/oct2hex-function-912175b4-d497-41b4-a029-221f051b858f

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