Our office uses a spreadsheet to track test times. I would like to format
the cell to automatically insert the colon when I key (from the number pad) a
time such as 08:37. I tried to format the cell with Format, Cell, Time, Type
(13:30) but it returns 00:00. Thanks for your help.

Formatting the cell hh:mm does not keep you from having to type the colon.
If you omit the column, Excel treats your number as 837.

HTH
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Our office uses a spreadsheet to track test times. I would like to format
the cell to automatically insert the colon when I key (from the number
pad) a
time such as 08:37. I tried to format the cell with Format, Cell, Time,
Type
(13:30) but it returns 00:00. Thanks for your help.

Bonnie

Check out Ron de Bruin's QDE(quick date entry) Add-in which allows entering
times and dates with separators.

http://www.rondebruin.nl/qde.htm


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:56:02 -0700, Bonnie F Moore <Bonnie F
wrote:

Our office uses a spreadsheet to track test times. I would like to format
the cell to automatically insert the colon when I key (from the number pad) a
time such as 08:37. I tried to format the cell with Format, Cell, Time, Type
(13:30) but it returns 00:00. Thanks for your help.

Hi Gord

Not only me(Bob, Frank and Norman also)
It is only working for dates

For time see
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeEntry.htm



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Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl


"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ...
Bonnie

Check out Ron de Bruin's QDE(quick date entry) Add-in which allows entering
times and dates with separators.

http://www.rondebruin.nl/qde.htm


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:56:02 -0700, Bonnie F Moore <Bonnie F
wrote:

Our office uses a spreadsheet to track test times. I would like to format
the cell to automatically insert the colon when I key (from the number pad) a
time such as 08:37. I tried to format the cell with Format, Cell, Time, Type
(13:30) but it returns 00:00. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the clarification Ron and kudos to Bob, Frank and Norman for their
assistance with that project.

You can tell I have not used the QDE add-in or I would have known it "doesn't do
time"


Gord

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:40:01 +0200, "Ron de Bruin"
wrote:

Hi Gord

Not only me(Bob, Frank and Norman also)
It is only working for dates

For time see
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeEntry.htm

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP