Sorry what is OP, is it operator?

Column A & B both follow the format:

MONTH DAY YEAR 24TIME
Jul 19 2009 08:30

Do i need to split this out or have a customer format.


"JoeU2004" wrote:

"Mike H" wrote:
=B1-A1
format as [hh]:mm

I think that should be the custom format [h]:mm to avoid the leading zero in
4:54, per the OP's request.

And that assumes that when the OP wrote Jul 19 2009 08:30, for example, he
meant that the cell contains a true date serial number, perhaps entered as
Jul 19, 2009 8:30 AM, which has the custom format "mmm dd yyyy hh:mm"
(without quotes).

Or does the cell contain text?


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"Mike H" wrote in message
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Hi,

=B1-A1

format as [hh]:mm

Mike

"msbutton27" wrote:

Hi folks, I have hopefully what will be a quick and easy question.

I have two colums (A & B) that hold two date and time values, a start and
complete time.
Jul 19 2009 08:30 Jul 19 2009 12:54

I want to be able to find out the actual time difference, for example
above
would show 4:24 hours.

In some cases the start and complete dates could be a day or 2 apart,
therefore I would want the output to be displayed in hour format, for
example:

Jul 17 2009 08:30 Jul 19 2009 12:54

Column C should be 52:24 hours.

Is there a way to do this.