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How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display 5:12 (5 minues 12 seconds).
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Hi Ron! I'd be happy to help you with that.

To convert decimal fractions of minutes to seconds, you need to multiply the decimal by 60. In this case, we want to convert 0.5 minutes to seconds, so we'll multiply 0.5 by 60:
  1. 0.5 x 60 = 30 seconds

So 0.5 minutes is equal to 30 seconds. Now we need to add that to the original 5 minutes to get the total time in minutes and seconds.

5 minutes + 30 seconds = 5:30

However, we want the seconds to be displayed as 12 instead of 30. To do this, we need to subtract the number of seconds we want to remove (18 in this case) from the total number of seconds (30).

30 - 18 = 12

So the final answer is 5:12.

I hope that helps!
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Hi Ron

How do you get 12 secs from 0.5 of a minute?

If you have a decimal value eg in A1 of 5.5 and this number represents
your minutes, then you could use a formula like:

=A1/1440

and format the cell as mm:ss to get the format as eg 05:30 (use
hh:mm:ss or maybe [h]:mm:ss if you will have numbers of more than 60
minutes).

Does this help?

Richard


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Thanks!
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This will get you 5:12 from 5.5, assuming 5.5 is in A1

=LEFT(A1,FIND(".",A1)-1) & ":" & 60 / RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(".",A1))

I think I see where .5 comes up with 12 minutes (1/5 minute vs 1/2 minute).
If that was a typo then this would give you 5:30
=LEFT(C568,FIND(".",C568)-1) & ":" & 60 *
RIGHT(C568,LEN(C568)-FIND(".",C568)+1)

Note that both results are text, not true time.

"ronnie-g" wrote:

How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display 5:12 (5 minues 12 seconds).
Thanks!
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If 5.5 is in cell A1 then:

=.000656565*A1 and format as mm:ss
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Sorry... Question should have read: How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display
5:30 (5 minues 30 seconds).

"RichardSchollar" wrote:

Hi Ron

How do you get 12 secs from 0.5 of a minute?

If you have a decimal value eg in A1 of 5.5 and this number represents
your minutes, then you could use a formula like:

=A1/1440

and format the cell as mm:ss to get the format as eg 05:30 (use
hh:mm:ss or maybe [h]:mm:ss if you will have numbers of more than 60
minutes).

Does this help?

Richard


ronnie-g wrote:

How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display 5:12 (5 minues 12 seconds).
Thanks!
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Sorry..... Question should have read: How do I convert 5.5 minutes to
display 5:30(5 minues 30 seconds).
I successfully used your first example : =LEFT(C568,FIND(".",C568)-1) & ":"
& 60 * RIGHT(C568,LEN(C568)-FIND(".",C568)+1)
Thanks!

"JLatham" wrote:

This will get you 5:12 from 5.5, assuming 5.5 is in A1

=LEFT(A1,FIND(".",A1)-1) & ":" & 60 / RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(".",A1))

I think I see where .5 comes up with 12 minutes (1/5 minute vs 1/2 minute).
If that was a typo then this would give you 5:30
=LEFT(C568,FIND(".",C568)-1) & ":" & 60 *
RIGHT(C568,LEN(C568)-FIND(".",C568)+1)

Note that both results are text, not true time.

"ronnie-g" wrote:

How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display 5:12 (5 minues 12 seconds).
Thanks!
--Ron

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Sorry..... Question should have read: How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display
5:30(5 minues 30 seconds).
I successfully used your first example : =LEFT(C568,FIND(".",C568)-1) & ":"
& 60 * RIGHT(C568,LEN(C568)-FIND(".",C568)+1)
Thanks!

"RichardSchollar" wrote:

Hi Ron

How do you get 12 secs from 0.5 of a minute?

If you have a decimal value eg in A1 of 5.5 and this number represents
your minutes, then you could use a formula like:

=A1/1440

and format the cell as mm:ss to get the format as eg 05:30 (use
hh:mm:ss or maybe [h]:mm:ss if you will have numbers of more than 60
minutes).

Does this help?

Richard


ronnie-g wrote:

How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display 5:12 (5 minues 12 seconds).
Thanks!
--Ron



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Sorry..... Question should have read: How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display
5:30(5 minues 30 seconds).
I successfully used example : =LEFT(C568,FIND(".",C568)-1) & ":" & 60 *
RIGHT(C568,LEN(C568)-FIND(".",C568)+1)
Thanks!

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

If 5.5 is in cell A1 then:

=.000656565*A1 and format as mm:ss
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"ronnie-g" wrote:

How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display 5:12 (5 minues 12 seconds).
Thanks!
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Don't know why you'd want to do that when Richards suggestion is so much
simpler,

=C568/1440

format as [m]:ss

or if you want a text result

=TEXT(C568/1440,"[m]:ss")

"ronnie-g" wrote:

Sorry..... Question should have read: How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display
5:30(5 minues 30 seconds).
I successfully used example : =LEFT(C568,FIND(".",C568)-1) & ":" & 60 *
RIGHT(C568,LEN(C568)-FIND(".",C568)+1)
Thanks!

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

If 5.5 is in cell A1 then:

=.000656565*A1 and format as mm:ss
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"ronnie-g" wrote:

How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display 5:12 (5 minues 12 seconds).
Thanks!
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And I agree with that - much simpler, more straightforward. I only attacked
it from the text aspect because of his initial typo'd example (and carried
that on to the text preparation for 5:30 to keep from jumping track and
confusing him).

ronnie-g, if you need true time, Richard's way is the way to go, you can set
format of the cell up to get it to show just 5:30 (with those numbers) vs
12:05:30 as it may try to do.

"daddylonglegs" wrote:

Don't know why you'd want to do that when Richards suggestion is so much
simpler,

=C568/1440

format as [m]:ss

or if you want a text result

=TEXT(C568/1440,"[m]:ss")

"ronnie-g" wrote:

Sorry..... Question should have read: How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display
5:30(5 minues 30 seconds).
I successfully used example : =LEFT(C568,FIND(".",C568)-1) & ":" & 60 *
RIGHT(C568,LEN(C568)-FIND(".",C568)+1)
Thanks!

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

If 5.5 is in cell A1 then:

=.000656565*A1 and format as mm:ss
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"ronnie-g" wrote:

How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display 5:12 (5 minues 12 seconds).
Thanks!
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Richard I am curious where did you come up with the 1440? By the way this
works and is much easier than the other responses. Thanks.

"RichardSchollar" wrote:

Hi Ron

How do you get 12 secs from 0.5 of a minute?

If you have a decimal value eg in A1 of 5.5 and this number represents
your minutes, then you could use a formula like:

=A1/1440

and format the cell as mm:ss to get the format as eg 05:30 (use
hh:mm:ss or maybe [h]:mm:ss if you will have numbers of more than 60
minutes).

Does this help?

Richard


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How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display 5:12 (5 minues 12 seconds).
Thanks!
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=60*24 (minutes in day)

Steve

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:02:02 -0000, ronnie-g
wrote:

Richard I am curious where did you come up with the 1440? By the way
this
works and is much easier than the other responses. Thanks.

"RichardSchollar" wrote:

Hi Ron

How do you get 12 secs from 0.5 of a minute?

If you have a decimal value eg in A1 of 5.5 and this number represents
your minutes, then you could use a formula like:

=A1/1440

and format the cell as mm:ss to get the format as eg 05:30 (use
hh:mm:ss or maybe [h]:mm:ss if you will have numbers of more than 60
minutes).

Does this help?

Richard


ronnie-g wrote:

How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display 5:12 (5 minues 12 seconds).
Thanks!
--Ron






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ronnie-g, SteveW has given you the answer about 1440, it is the number of
minutes in a day. I agree his solution is simpler. I was thrown a bit by
your original 5.5 = 5min 12sec and thought you were representing 1/5 of a
minute (12 seconds in the decimal portion. That's why I worked it with text
vs time. I completely agree that Richard's solution is a better one since
you are looking for a time conversion that works "normally".

"ronnie-g" wrote:

Richard I am curious where did you come up with the 1440? By the way this
works and is much easier than the other responses. Thanks.

"RichardSchollar" wrote:

Hi Ron

How do you get 12 secs from 0.5 of a minute?

If you have a decimal value eg in A1 of 5.5 and this number represents
your minutes, then you could use a formula like:

=A1/1440

and format the cell as mm:ss to get the format as eg 05:30 (use
hh:mm:ss or maybe [h]:mm:ss if you will have numbers of more than 60
minutes).

Does this help?

Richard


ronnie-g wrote:

How do I convert 5.5 minutes to display 5:12 (5 minues 12 seconds).
Thanks!
--Ron



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