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Default How to display negative times

If you multiply the time result with 24 and format as number or general you
will get decimal time


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Peo Sjoblom



"Josh W" wrote in message
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Thanks. The trouble I had was that I have eg. cell C35 which displays the
amount of hours we MUST attend - formatted as numbers (i.e. 155.5) and
cell
D34 which adds up the total amount of hours actually attended during the
month - formatted as hours (i.e. 165:30). Then cell C36 is supposed to
subtract C35 from D34 to give me the result of overtime of missing hours.
Trouble is that b/c C35 is formatted as numbers I cannot get the result.
So
in the end I formatted the whole document as time which is inconvenient
since
I have to display to my colleagues for example fifty and a half hours as
50:30 and not 50.5 which is normal.

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

What attack? You posted back to a suggested solution with no info except
that you got a completely wrong result. One would expect a description of
what was wrong with the result vis-à-vis the result you expected.


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Peo Sjoblom



"Josh W" wrote in message
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Wow! What an attack...I thought I had explained well in the beginning.
In
the end I formatted each cell as [hh]mm and changed to 1904 date system
and
it seems to be working.

"JE McGimpsey" wrote:

Unless you're just commenting for the heck of it, it would have been
helpful to indicate what your formula is, what the referenced cell
values are, and what you expected the result to be...

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Josh W wrote:

Thanks Bob. However, when I do this, I get the completely wrong
result!!