I think Gary meant : hhmm without the colon
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"fontana" wrote in message
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I keep a activity diary to appease the reviewer at the long term
disability
co. I am used to recording time as military time, but I cannot get Excel
to
keep the leading zero unless I format the cell as text. And typing a
number
as text elicits an error which is a hassle to correct.