What if the user enters 123:123? You formula can be patched like this...

=LEFT(A1,FIND(":",A1)-1)/24+MID(A1,FIND(":",A1)+1,9)/(24*60)

However, I assumed from the OP's post that he wanted the result to read like
a sentence (xx hours and yy minutes) and not like a time value.

Rick


"Gary''s Student" wrote in message
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=LEFT(A1,2)/24+RIGHT(A1,2)/(24*60) and format as [h]:mm
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200783


"Beep Beep" wrote:

I have a spreadsheet that has hours and minutes manually inputed. Is
there a
formula that will convert the following: 38:90 (38 hours and 90 minutes)
to
39 hours and 30 minutes?