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Mark@Marc
 
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Default Time Field Formatting


I am exporting a report from Crystal Reports because the time "in" and
time "out" fields are recognized as text fields in instead of time
fields. I am trying to get a total time. If I try to format the cells
as time cells it has no effect. Here is my example:

11:30 AM 12:30 PM

I use the =Left(a3,5) formula to drop the AM & PM off of the cell and I
am able to sucessfully get a time difference for all times that do not
cross the noon hour. I get the following result for times that do
cross noon:

11:30 12:30 ########################

where ########### should actually be 1:00

I realize the root problem is that the database we are pulling from
does not recognize the fields that have times as time fields. I am not
able to correct that so I hope Excel can help with this problem.

Thanks

Mark


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