I enter hundreds of start and stop times to determine room occupancy time. I
would like to get away from inserting the colon in the time, which would
greatly enhance entries with the number key pad. How do I format a cell to
allow entry of a 4 digit time (e.g. 1955 or 2315) in military/international
format? I need to subtract Start from Stop Time, but the answer can be in
hh:mm format.

Thank You in advance for any helpful suggestions.

Chip Pearson has some code he

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeEntry.htm

which allows you to do that.

A quick alternative is to set up autocorrect to change a . to a : and
then you can enter the time from the numeric keypad and use a full-
stop instead of the colon.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Apr 8, 1:44*pm, MidWest Yankee <MidWest
wrote:
I enter hundreds of start and stop times to determine room occupancy time. I
would like to get away from inserting the colon in the time, which would
greatly enhance entries with the number key pad. How do I format a cell to
allow entry of a 4 digit time (e.g. 1955 or 2315) in military/international
format? I need to subtract Start from Stop Time, but the answer can be in
hh:mm format.

Thank You in advance for any helpful suggestions.

You could convert the data with=--TEXT(A1,"00\:00")
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David Biddulph

"MidWest Yankee" <MidWest wrote in message
...
I enter hundreds of start and stop times to determine room occupancy time.
I
would like to get away from inserting the colon in the time, which would
greatly enhance entries with the number key pad. How do I format a cell to
allow entry of a 4 digit time (e.g. 1955 or 2315) in
military/international
format? I need to subtract Start from Stop Time, but the answer can be in
hh:mm format.

Thank You in advance for any helpful suggestions.