Thanks David - that did the trick - never worked with time before and had no
idea about the formulas thanks again!

Frank

"David Biddulph" wrote:

That's what we'd expect if you use hh:mm. What happens when you use the
format [h]:mm, as suggested?
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David Biddulph

"jfw-Florida" wrote in message
...
OK - it is a simple time sheet Line one column a is start time say for a
Monday
line to column a is start time for Tuesday etc Column b is the end time
for
each day and column c is the total hoursw worked for the day. If each day
worked is 8 hours then the total of column c must be 40 hours 0 minutes.

I used the formula =b-a to get the number of hours worked for each line or
day in column c. Then I wanted to sum all the hours worked for column c
which as I said must equal 40 - but the number displayed when using hh:mm
is
16.00.

"David Biddulph" wrote:

Just saying it is "not correct" isn't helping anyone to answer your
problem.
What numbers are you adding, and what answer does Excel display when you
format the answer as [h]:mm?
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David Biddulph

"jfw-Florida" wrote in message
...
I have a time sheet with column a as start then b is finish and c is
total
time. No problem with b-a=c using hh:mm but when I try to sum col c
into
a
total the answer is not shown as hh:mm. I have tried everything from
general
thru custon and the answer is not correct

"Toppers" wrote:

You haven't explained exactly what the problem is but if your times
are
in
hours/minutes (hh:mm) then ensure the "total" cell is formatted as
[h]:mm.
The total should be a simple =SUM(A1:A100).

"jfw-Florida" wrote:

I want to add a column of times in a time sheet. I can get the
hours
worked
but can't seem to get the column to add totalhours