i've got a couple of questions. i trying to build a timing sheet in excel to
track multiple race cars over multiple laps. I've got all the formulas
figured out, but my problem is with data entry. there is a standard short cut
to enter the current time (shift, ctrl, ;), but when i use this, it doesn't
enter the seconds. I've formatted the cell as HH:mm:ss. any ideas here??

also, i know you can format the cells to auto fill, where i could type "345"
and it will automatically change it to "$3.45". i've tried to use this with
the above time format, but it changes it to a date and time default. it will
only recognizes the decimal equivalent of time, whereas 093344 is converted
to 07/25/2155 12:00 AM instead of 09:33:44 (hh:mm:ss). any help here would be
greatly appreciated.

thank you in advance - jeremy

That is the way it does it, not good, but there it is I am afraid.

See http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeEntry.htm for quick time entry.

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HTH

Bob

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"ffjerm" wrote in message
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i've got a couple of questions. i trying to build a timing sheet in excel
to
track multiple race cars over multiple laps. I've got all the formulas
figured out, but my problem is with data entry. there is a standard short
cut
to enter the current time (shift, ctrl, ;), but when i use this, it
doesn't
enter the seconds. I've formatted the cell as HH:mm:ss. any ideas here??

also, i know you can format the cells to auto fill, where i could type
"345"
and it will automatically change it to "$3.45". i've tried to use this
with
the above time format, but it changes it to a date and time default. it
will
only recognizes the decimal equivalent of time, whereas 093344 is
converted
to 07/25/2155 12:00 AM instead of 09:33:44 (hh:mm:ss). any help here would
be
greatly appreciated.

thank you in advance - jeremy

thank you!!! this worked perfect. one more question......excel shows negative
time as "########", is there a way to change this default so the cell is
blank instead? thanks again.....

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

That is the way it does it, not good, but there it is I am afraid.

See http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeEntry.htm for quick time entry.

--
---
HTH

Bob

(change the xxxx to gmail if mailing direct)


"ffjerm" wrote in message
...
i've got a couple of questions. i trying to build a timing sheet in excel
to
track multiple race cars over multiple laps. I've got all the formulas
figured out, but my problem is with data entry. there is a standard short
cut
to enter the current time (shift, ctrl, ;), but when i use this, it
doesn't
enter the seconds. I've formatted the cell as HH:mm:ss. any ideas here??

also, i know you can format the cells to auto fill, where i could type
"345"
and it will automatically change it to "$3.45". i've tried to use this
with
the above time format, but it changes it to a date and time default. it
will
only recognizes the decimal equivalent of time, whereas 093344 is
converted
to 07/25/2155 12:00 AM instead of 09:33:44 (hh:mm:ss). any help here would
be
greatly appreciated.

thank you in advance - jeremy