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MartinW MartinW is offline
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Default Data Entry problem

Hi Jason,

The colon tells excel the input is time, so to excel 1:500
is 1 hour 500 minutes.

If you type an apostrophe before your input like '1:500
it will stay as text.

HTH
Martin