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Sandy Mann
 
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Default importing time from pdf as table and calculating

I view my rogers phone bill online and it allows me to save it as a pdf
that I can access later


From what I read in these NG's if you downloaded the bill from the net then
it will most likely have spaces - probably non-breaking hard spaces
CHAR(160).

Try changing the format of the cells to General - if the *times* really are
times then you will get a decimal nmber less then 1

If it doesn't change to a number then try using
=VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(160),"")) in a cell formatted as General.

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Sandy

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"ludikris" wrote in
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Hi,

I view my rogers phone bill online and it allows me to save it as a pdf
that I can access later... I then import the date using the table select
function but when I try to sum the table, I get zeros.

for example..

10:00
22:10
16:00

=sum(a1:a3) the formula
00:00 what I see
48:10 what I should get.

Can someone help me solve this ?

the .xls is attached in zip format...

Thanks !!


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