Your suggetstion is by far teh most straight forward. It will fit my stated
plan exactly. Thanks also for the second notice; with that tidbit of data, I
think I will stich with Pete's suggested formula approach. Admittedly I was
looking for a setting, which is exactly where you directed.

As with medicinal drugs sometimes the side-effects outwiegh the benefits. I
think that woul dbe the case in this scenario. This second post certainly
saved me quite a bit of frustration, had I went proceeded.

Thansk for sharing your knowledge!

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

An amendment to my first post.

If you do change the time separator......................

You must always enter time as hh.mm.ss or Excel will interpret as a decimal
number if entered as hh.mm


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:50:02 -0700, JR Hester
wrote:

Is there a simple way change teh hour: minute separator in time formatted
cells(columns) to accept the decimal instead of the:? Data entry would be so
much simpler and quicker using the decimal point.
Suggestions appreciated

Thanks