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Default Negative time calculations

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:33:16 -0800, "Tyro" wrote:

Excel for Windows does not handle negative time calculations. Excel for Mac
does.


Excel for Windows certainly can handle negative time calculations.

I have this in my Excel 2002 running under Windows XP Pro:

A1: 1/5/2008 6:30 AM (format m/d/yyyy h:mm AM/PM )
A2: 1/4/2008 4:15 PM
A3: =A2-A1 -- -14:15 (format [h]:mm )

--ron