Chris,

I guess that the problem you get for a it is seeing ####.

This is not a problem apart from presentation, there is still a negative
time in there with you can do arithmetic on.

One way would be to work in decimal hours, =(B1-A1)*24, and format as
general.

A better way would be to have a credit and debit cell separately, and then
sum those and take individually and subtract debit from credit.
=(B1-A10)*(B1-A1)
=(A1-B10)*(A1-B1)

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HTH

RP
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"Chris01623" wrote in message
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i am making a spreadsheet of hours people have worked in a week. People
should work 37 hours, anything above that is credit, and below it debit.
In
my spreadsheet, the "hours worked" cell is displayed in 37:00 format (as
is
all other times in the worksheet) if someone works 37:30, that 30 minutes
is
displayed in the credit/debit cell fine, but if someone works less than
37:00
in the week nothing i do works to show the debit people are accrueing. So
if
someone works 35:00 i would like it to show that they are in 02:00 debit.
Has
anyone got any suggestions?