The OP is spoilt. 47 minutes and three alternative solutions. Where else do
you get (free) service like that?

Bob

"Sloth" wrote in message
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Bob,

you make me look so stupid :). You posted and got a response in the time
it
took me to finish writing my post.

Jason Rackley

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=INT(A2-A1)&" days "&ROUND(MOD(A2-A1,1)*24,0)&" hours"

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"TBA" wrote in message
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I have tried a number of the responses posted- sorry i can't seem to
get
it
right!
I want to calculate the number of days and hours between two date time
values
e.g.

cell A1 start: 17/01/2006 16:12
cell A2 finish: 25/01/2006 10:00
cell A3 answer: 7 days 18 hrs

and is it possible to leave cells A1 and A2 in dd:mm:yy hh:mm format
rather
than 'general'?

thanks for your help-