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Default Calculating time in minutes

The [mm];; worked perfect. That's exactly what I wanted. Again, thanks for
all your help.

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

If there can never be a zero value you can use

[mm];;


as a custom format, if it is OK with one zero you can use

[m]


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Peo Sjoblom


"Kurt S" wrote in message
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Ok one ore question. If I enter that formula into a cell, it will default
to
puting two 0's in the cell until data is put in the other cells. Is there
any
way to have it not show a 00 value until data is entered in the other
cells.
It's no big deal, just looks cleaner if there aren't a bunch of 0's in the
spreadsheet.

"Kurt S" wrote:

Great info. Thanks again for the help.

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

If you intend to do calculation like if you have pay rates
that use minutes than you should convert it to decimal by
multiplying with 1440 (60*24), if not it is better to use
a custom format since it will save a little bit of
computing resources. [hh]:mm will display hours
24 and greater. x*24 formatted as general or number
will be the equivalent decimal hours


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom




"Kurt S" wrote in message
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Ah, thanks for the clarification. You're right, I didn't use the
brackets.

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Actually, it will give you the total minutes. I am sure you
overlooked
that
I used [mm]
note the brackets. You probably used mm which will only go up to 59
minutes
However if you include the brackets it will show larger values


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom



"Kurt S" wrote in message
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Thanks for the answers guys. Mike, your formula worked great. Peo,
I
had
tried that already. It just gave me the minutes, and didn't
calculate
the
hours into minutes.

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Use custom format [mm]

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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom



"Kurt S" wrote in message
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I have a spreadsheet that I enter the start and end times of a
project.
I
would like to be able to calculate the time spent in minutes.
IE. I
enter
the
time I started in cell C1 and the end time in cell C2. If I
enter
the
formula
"=C2-C1" it will calculate the time, but it does it in hours
and
minutes.
What formula can I use to calculate the time in minutes only?