I also believe the OP needs to be entering times as times Excel can interpret
as times, he seems to be using decimals and he either has to convert them
through a formula or use an event macro that replaces the period with a
semicolon

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"David McRitchie" wrote:

Format as time with a custom format:
[hh]:mm
the square brackets will keep hours from overflowing into days.
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"Jay" wrote in message ...
I am trying to set up a spreadsheet where I can track, over the course of a
week, how long I work on a specific task every day, in hours and minutes.

I've tried several of the formatting options - General, Number, Time,
Special, Custom but everytime I enter a length of time, for example; 1.45
-for 1 hr and 45 minutes, Excel converts it to a time of the day and not a
length of time.

Is there a way to fomat a row of cells to track lengths of time in hours and
minutes over a week?

Thanks,

Jay