I'm trying to create a timeline. If an event starts at 7:00 PM and the first
activity takes five minutes, it would then be 7:05 PM. The next event takes
10 minutes, taking us to 7:15 PM, etc. I can't seem to add minutes -- five
minutes becomes 12:05 PM and my timeline swings back and forth from AM to PM.
Custom formatting can make the minutes look like 00:05:00, but the 12 hours
are still lurking there, messing up my timeline. Any solutions?

=A1+TIME(,5,)

This will add 5 min.

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

-----Original Message-----
I'm trying to create a timeline. If an event starts at
7:00 PM and the first
activity takes five minutes, it would then be 7:05 PM.
The next event takes
10 minutes, taking us to 7:15 PM, etc. I can't seem to
add minutes -- five
minutes becomes 12:05 PM and my timeline swings back and
forth from AM to PM.
Custom formatting can make the minutes look like
00:05:00, but the 12 hours
are still lurking there, messing up my timeline. Any
solutions?
.

Use

=A1+5/1440

where A1 holds 07:00 PM

you might have to reformat since exel probably wants to format as date and
time

Or if you don't need to do calculations you can use

=TEXT(A1+5/1440,"h:mm AM/PM")

or

=TEXT(A1+B1/1440,"h:mm AM/PM")

where B1 holds the minutes you want to add

one excel hour is 1/24 thus one excel minute is 1/(60*24) = 1/1440

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Randberger" wrote:

I'm trying to create a timeline. If an event starts at 7:00 PM and the first
activity takes five minutes, it would then be 7:05 PM. The next event takes
10 minutes, taking us to 7:15 PM, etc. I can't seem to add minutes -- five
minutes becomes 12:05 PM and my timeline swings back and forth from AM to PM.
Custom formatting can make the minutes look like 00:05:00, but the 12 hours
are still lurking there, messing up my timeline. Any solutions?

One way:

A1: 7:00 pm
A2: 5
A3: =A1+TIME(0,A2,0) === 7:05 pm

alternatively,

A3: =A1+A2/1440

which works since XL stores times as fractional days, so you need to
divide minutes by (24*60).

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"Randberger" wrote:

I'm trying to create a timeline. If an event starts at 7:00 PM and the first
activity takes five minutes, it would then be 7:05 PM. The next event takes
10 minutes, taking us to 7:15 PM, etc. I can't seem to add minutes -- five
minutes becomes 12:05 PM and my timeline swings back and forth from AM to PM.
Custom formatting can make the minutes look like 00:05:00, but the 12 hours
are still lurking there, messing up my timeline. Any solutions?

Hello !
A1=7:00 PM
A2=5
A3=A1+(A2*"0:1")

HTH

@+
geedee

Randberger wrote:
I'm trying to create a timeline. If an event starts at 7:00 PM and
the first activity takes five minutes, it would then be 7:05 PM. The
next event takes 10 minutes, taking us to 7:15 PM, etc. I can't seem
to add minutes -- five minutes becomes 12:05 PM and my timeline
swings back and forth from AM to PM. Custom formatting can make the
minutes look like 00:05:00, but the 12 hours are still lurking there,
messing up my timeline. Any solutions?