what is the formula to convert a time that is hours and decimal of hours to
hours and minutes for instance 72.8 to 72:48

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:08:01 -0700, Rosemary
wrote:

what is the formula to convert a time that is hours and decimal of hours to
hours and minutes for instance 72.8 to 72:48

That depends on what you want to do with the value.

Basically, you divide by 24 and format the result as Format/Cells/Number/Custom
Type: [h]:mm

That would give a value that Excel would recognize as time.

You could also use the formula:

=TEXT(A1/24,"[h]:mm")

which would give a text string.


--ron

Rosemary,

If the value is in cell A1, use

=A1/24

and format the cell with the formula for a custom number format of [h]:mm.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


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what is the formula to convert a time that is hours and decimal of hours to
hours and minutes for instance 72.8 to 72:48