Time is held in Excel as a fractional part of 1 day. So if you declare a
variable as Double, you should be able to get it quite easily as a number

Dim myNum As Double
myNum = Range("D1").Value
MsgBox myNum


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"Owen" wrote in message
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I'm using VBA for excel. A formula in a cell calculates the timespan
between
two date/times in minutes. I need to extract this number from excel into
VB,
but it always converts the number to the date/time serial number! any help
appreciated - this should be easy!