Try this:

A1 = 01 15:15

Excel considers that a TEXT string.

This formula:

=IF(COUNT(FIND(" ",A1)),LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)+MID(A1,FIND("
",A1)+1,10),A1)*1440

Returns 2355

You might be able to use this slightly shorter version but it's not as
robust as the one above:

=IF(ISTEXT(A1),LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)+MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,10),A1)*1440


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"wowo35" wrote in message
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I do turn around times at work. The info is gotten from a report in
powervision ( a cerner product) and then exported to excel. The cells
populate this way (example) 01 15:15, the 01 is one day if there is no
day
its easy to plug in a formula to convert to minutes but when there are
days
01, 02 ect it wont convert. Does anyone know of a way to convert this
into
minutes in excel? Or a way to average the days hours minutes? I used to
be
able to export to comma and it would work but alas this is no longer the
case
for some reason.