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Ron Rosenfeld Ron Rosenfeld is offline
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Default Please help with formating

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:33:01 -0700, Al wrote:

I have a column that has times written as numbers, so, I have 1:30 written as
1.3 and 24:00 written as 24. and so on. When I try to format the column as
Time, I get very strange results. I need to format the time so that it would
go from 0:00 to 24:00 (military hours). I have so many records to go manually
to make these changes. When I make the change manually it works fine. Can
someone help me please. I am trying to meet a deadline and this way, it will
take forever.
thanks
Al


Excel stores time as fractions of a day (1 hr = 1/24).

So first convert the value into something that excel recognizes as a time.
e.g., with your value in H1:

=DOLLARDE(H1,60)/24

or if you do not have the ATP installed:

=(INT(H1)+MOD(H1,1)/0.6)/24

Then format the result as time (e.g. [h]:mm )
--ron