While not the most elegant of solutions, I've saved the Excel file as a tab
delimited file and imported the file into Access. I think that I will solve
my short term issue, but if anyone has any suggestions on the serial date to
string conversion I will gladly accept any pointers.

I've Googled the issue and there is tons 'o' stuff on calculating time
differences, but that's not what I'm looking for here.

Thanks to hmm (Mr. Hours & Minutes?) and to all the contributers on this site.
--
Kevin Backmann


"Kevin B" wrote:

I have 2 years worth of cumulative phone usage time totals in an Excel
workbook that are submitted by our phone service provider. The phone usage
columns are cumulative minutes and seconds by day (mm:ss) and some have been
entered as string formulas: ="1655:33"

However, many time totals have been converted to a date/time serial number,
so I have a displayed value of 939:53:00, that is actually 2/8/1900 3:53:00
AM. What I need is the string equivalent of the displayed value and not the
date/time serial number. Ive tried a number of VB conversion UDFs and I
can only successfully convert the values that do not exceed 23:59. At the
moment Im stumped.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks ahead of time...

Kevin Backmann