Hi All,

Ok, ok, I submit. I spent an hour on this and could NOT get it to resolve.
I'm working with about 6800+ rows which have oodles of columns; however, the
only two (ok, three) that are relevant to the problem are the Time Created
(column B), Time Edited (column D) and resultant Time Elapsed (column E).
The first two columns are provided by the system in mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss
format, and the third is an auxiliary column I created to show the
difference, using n(D2)-n(B2), with a cell format of dd hh:mm:ss.

The PivotTable I create uses the count of records as the data, with Time
Elapsed as the rows. When I try to slim down the rows by grouping, it
perceives the values as times in a day instead of elapsed time periods. So
when I group, instead of doing "1:00:00", it does "1am". I've tried
modifying the format of both the fields in the PivotTable and just the
columns for the sheet the PivotTable is in, and nothing seems to convert it
properly. To further complicate the issue, it doesn't recognize that there's
also days into this--so when it rolls past 24, it just starts over. A real,
royal pain. Any ideas? I *could* just break the time elapsed out to number
format, but it's sort of frowned upon to have to explain to a VP why the
frequencies are measured in % of a day.

Thanks in advance for any help on this pain,

Jamie W.