Excel wants a space before the AM or PM. Without the space, it sees it as
text instead of a time.
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David Biddulph

"Wanna Learn" wrote in message
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Hello
report comes from another system - which I import into excel 2002 -cells
are
formatted as general Here we go...
row 1 has the headings , row 2 has the name of the employee.
column D has the log in time , column E has the lunch log out time
the row below has the same employee name again
column d has the log in time after lunch, row e has the last log out time
In this simple example the person worked 6:30 hours
Name In 0ut
Smith 8:00am 11:00am
Smith 12:00PM 3:30PM

what I need to know is the total hours worked during a day. I tried this
formula =TEXT(H14-F14,"hh:mm") but I get and answer of #VALUE
I tired formatting the cells as time - but it did not work.
Thanks in advance