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Time Tracking problem.
I have a time tracking report run by a program other than Excel. I
copy the data and paste it into Excel. What I get is the amount of time spent in various conditions. Simplified to 4 columns for this example, A B C D: 27:57:40 :03:13 19:38:04 1:48:57 All of these end up in different formats. [h]:mm:ss - 1/1/1900 3:57:40 AM for the data in A1 General - :03:13 in B1 hh:mm:ss - 7:38:04 PM in C1 General - 1:48:57 in D1 First things first - it is the program I am copying from that uses the format :00:00 for anything that has a 0 in the hour location. How can I get a 0 into that hour location to display 0:03:13 for my example? This is the formula that I came up with: IF(LEFT(B1,SEARCH(":",B1))=":","0"&B1,B1. This works if true, but it fails to display B1 if false. I have to use the TEXT formula on B1 to make it display correctly if false. I can do that but I would have to insert 2 columns for each column of data so I could do the TEXT Formula and then the IF formula. All this I can do in VB. Am I missing a simpler process/formula/VB solution for this? So we get those numbers fixed. Now in my example I can take A1 and subtract B1. I can also subtract C1 because it is already in a compatible format. D1 on the other hand is in General format and even when I try changing the format manually to [h]:mm:ss I cannot subtract it from A1. I do not understand why it will not work. Any thoughts here? Ultimately the data that I want is A1 -B1 -C1 -D1. I considered changing everything to decimal but I still run into some of the same problems. Please let me know any insights you might have. I am sure I am missing something simple. Thank you for the help. |
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