It's because 10.30 is not a time value per Excel, you need to enter it as
10:30 or else you'll get 10.3 times 24
hours thus 247:12



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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Pippings" wrote in message
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On Office 2003 again. I have the same problem. Starting with a blank sheet
I
enter the time 10.30 then click on Format/Cells/custom and select [hh]:mm.
It changes the cell value to 247:12 and the formula to 10/01/1900
07:12:00.

I want to do calculations of the time too.

I have already spent an hour looking through other posts but could have
missed the solution

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

What do you see if you type 22:00, then format as General.

Wiley Coyote wrote:

Formatting as General, then entering 22:00 worked. I guess the
formatting
got pooched or something. But I seem to recall that when I built the
Sheet -
I'm sure I used Time in the format of 13:00.

Thanks...

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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If I format a cell as General and then type 22:00 into that cell,
excel
will
format the cell as Custom hh:mm.

If you type: 22:00 in the cell, then format the cell as general,
what do
you
see?

Just a guess...

Have you been playing in the windows regional settings--maybe the
time or
number
tab??

Wiley Coyote wrote:

Hey thatnks Dave. But the cell shows 12:00 AM (both of them) the
Formula
Bar
shows 9/26/1902 12:00:00 AM. I tried to format the cells as
general and
enter (for example) 22:00 and it displays correctly, however I
cannot
perform calculations on the cell (without converting to date/time).

As mentioned in my original post, this worked fine up til about a
week or
so
ago and Nothing has changed in the sheet.

TX.
"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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If you format that cell that shows 9/26/1902 as General, you'll
see
that
the
value in the cell is 1000.

That looks suspicious to me.

I'd try just retyping 10:00



Wiley Coyote wrote:

I have an Excel (Off2K3) spreadsheet that I've been using to
track
time
for
quite some time. I have two columns, Time In and Time Out. The
columns
are
formatted as TIME as 13:30 for example.

When I now enter Time (example Time In) as 10:00 and Time Out as
22:00,
both
columns display 0:00 and 9/26/1902 12:00:00 AM is displayed in
the
formula
bar.

Any ideas???

Wiley

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