Use this technique, assume you have 35523 hours and you want to add 11450
hours to that, use

=(35523/24)+(11450/24)

or if you have the times in cells A2:A3

=SUM(A2:A3)/24

returns 46973:00:00 formatted as [hh]:mm:ss

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Peo Sjoblom

Northwest Excel Solutions

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Portland, Oregon




"PapaT" wrote in message
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cells are formatted to [h]:mm and will not use a number higher than
9999:56