Thats brilliant Peo- I appreciate all the help- Tell me though why the cell
that I copied the formula you gave =TEXT(B1,"00\:00")-TEXT(A1,"00\:00")
produces the C1 and C2 area as a grey shaded area with the answer ?
Mike


"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

One way,

=TEXT(B1,"00\:00")-TEXT(A1,"00\:00")

format as [hh]:mm will return 00:45

if you want minutes as integers multiply the result with 1440 and format as
General

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"MikeR-Oz" wrote in message
...
Cheers Stefi- Tell me though - I am happy not to have the cell as 13:30 at
all and just be able to type 1330 as I knw I mean it as 24 hour time -SO
LONG
AS - the minutes calculated in the third cell is the difference between
the
first two times. so again I want to type 1330 in A1 and 1415 in B1 and
have
the C1 calculate the difference as minutes?

How may I do this?

Happy New Year
Mike

"Stefi" wrote:



€žMikeR-Oz€� ezt Ã*rta:

I have formatted 2 cells say A1 and B1 as time and chose the first
type
being in the form 13:30 - This shows up in the equation line as 1:12:00
PM.
So I type in 13:12 and I get what is required BUT is there a way that I
can
type 1312 without having to put the ':' in? and still get it to produce
the
time equation format for my 3 rd cell C1 which will be to calculate the
minutes difference between the 2 first cells eg. 13:12 and 13:20 giving
the
3rd cell as 0:08 . I have used =+B1-A1 for the C1 cell.

Use an extra input column (say Z) and format it as text, and apply this
formula in your time column A and B:
=TIMEVALUE(LEFT(Z1,2)&":"&RIGHT(Z1,2))

If you enter "1312" in Z1 then A1 will show 13:12 as a real XL time
value.


Also the other thing is that when I wish to calculate the minutes
between
the 2 times eg 13:00 and 14:00, I get 1:00 as the answer but I need to
have
the minutes i.e 60. How can I format this or do I need to write a
script/
macro of some sort?



Use custom format [mm]

Regards,
Stefi