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Default Converting :mm:ss to ss

Try this...

=86400*("00"&G2)

where 86400 is the number of seconds in a year and, when the concatenation
is multiplied by it, the concatenation is turned into an actual time value
(because your value has a time format except for the missing hours part...
which the concatenation puts in).

Rick


"Phredd" wrote in message
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I have data that I export to Excel where the total time comes in as :mm:ss.
I need to convert that format into seconds. For example, my report shows
me
:01:25, I need to be able to show that at 85 seconds. I have a formula
that
will convert mm:ss to seconds which is =INT(G2)*60+((G2-INT(G2))*100)
where
G2 is 01:25 the result will be 85. but the report i have now comes with
an
extra :. I cannot seem to be able to automatically remove the : at the
begining of the expression or modify my formula above to account for the
extra :. I am sure this is pretty simple it is just beyone me though.
Any
help will be much appreciated!
Phredd