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Default Calculating time difference

It's the report that has the faulty format.

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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

"jbly" wrote in message
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Why is that when I cut and paste the times from the report, it doesn't
seem
to want to take the cell format? I did format the cells. I tried to
cut/paste
into the cell and it didn't work, but if I typed it in, it converted it.
This
is very frustrating. I've also been looking to see if maybe there is a
function that will take the first five characters on the left of the cell
or
possilby even deleting the right three character in the cell to isolate
the
time without the AM/PM suffix.

Jason

"Kevin B" wrote:

Format the cell you enter the time into as a 24 hour clock format. You
can
enter 4:33 pm and the format will modify the display to 16:33:00, but you
cannot enter 16:33 pm as it's not a valid time entry.
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Kevin Backmann


"jbly" wrote:

Is there a way to calculate without having to go through and take out
the AM
and PM? It's no difference that what I'm doing now. I enter the data in
as 24
hour format manually. If I delete the PM, then it doesn't know to add
12
hours to the data. I want to have it convert that 4:43 PM to a 24 hour
format
automatically.

Jason

"Kevin B" wrote:

Omit the am/pm suffix since your using a 24 hour clock. 16:43 can
only be a
pm entry so your pm suffix is what's causing the #VALUE error.
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Kevin Backmann


"jbly" wrote:

I'm still not getting it. It still has the same value and is giving
#VALUE!
in the calculation.

Jason

"Kevin B" wrote:

Use the calculations that you indicated (A2-A1) but format the
cell using the
following Time format:

[h]:mm:ss

Select the result cell, click FORMAT in the menu and select
CELLS. In the
FORMAT CELLS dialog box locate the CUSTOM category in the
category pane and
then locate the above format in the TYPE: list box. You can
delete the ':ss'
if you do not want to see the seconds displayed.
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Kevin Backmann


"jbly" wrote:

I can't seem to find it in the help. How do I calculate time
difference? We
have a network in/out board. I get a report of when I clocked
in and out for
the day. I want to paste this into Excel and have it calculate
how much time
I worked. It comes in as:

A1 07:38 AM
A2 10:55 AM
A3 12:01 AM
A4 16:43 PM

I want it to calculate A2-A1 and A4-A3. Please help