I am trying to work on a spreadsheet for work where I am keeping track of
time by hours, minutes and seconds. I format the cells for hh:mm:ss.00 but
each time I enter the hours, seconds, minutes, it converts to a date field
and changes to another hh:mm:ss value. The value I have entered is 42:37:26

Select your date cells and then click on FORMAT and then select cells. In
the CATEGORY pane select CUSTOM and then in the type pane select the
following format:

[h]:mm:ss
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Kevin Backmann


"Brian James" wrote:

I am trying to work on a spreadsheet for work where I am keeping track of
time by hours, minutes and seconds. I format the cells for hh:mm:ss.00 but
each time I enter the hours, seconds, minutes, it converts to a date field
and changes to another hh:mm:ss value. The value I have entered is 42:37:26

Hi Brian,

The hh:mm:ss format is interpreting hours 24 as days and then shows the
remainder.
Creating a special format of [h]:mm:ss.00 gets round this

Anthony


"Brian James" wrote:

I am trying to work on a spreadsheet for work where I am keeping track of
time by hours, minutes and seconds. I format the cells for hh:mm:ss.00 but
each time I enter the hours, seconds, minutes, it converts to a date field
and changes to another hh:mm:ss value. The value I have entered is 42:37:26

I am not getting the problem, but maybe if you format as [h]:mm:ss

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Brian James" <Brian wrote in message
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I am trying to work on a spreadsheet for work where I am keeping track of
time by hours, minutes and seconds. I format the cells for hh:mm:ss.00
but
each time I enter the hours, seconds, minutes, it converts to a date field
and changes to another hh:mm:ss value. The value I have entered is
42:37:26

Brian James wrote:
I am trying to work on a spreadsheet for work where I am keeping
track of time by hours, minutes and seconds. I format the cells for
hh:mm:ss.00 but each time I enter the hours, seconds, minutes, it
converts to a date field and changes to another hh:mm:ss value. The
value I have entered is 42:37:26


Hi Brian,

try to format with Custom format. Menu Format, Cells, Number tab, under
Categories choose Custom, then type this format string in the text box:

[h]:mm:ss.00


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(I'm not sure of names of menus, options and commands, because
translating from the Italian version of Excel...)

Hope I helped you.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Ciao

Franz Verga from Italy