Why when a try to sum a number of time entries on a spreadsheet who's total
should be around 192 (worked hours per month) does the total appear as 00:00.
This is despite uning the [hh]:mm format, timesing the whole by 24 and
numerous other 'ideas'
Any help greatly apreciated.

Divide, not times

cells with say 8,8.5,7,9.25,10 ... etc will add up to a figure like 192

Cells need to be in fractions of a day to ie 8/24, 9/24 to be able to
display them as hh:mm

If you are happy with the individual ones being shown as decimal hours, ie
8.5
rather than 8:30 - leave these cells as they are.

The sum cell just needs to be converted
so should be =sum(CellWithHoursValues)/24

Steve


On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:50:01 -0000, Bikertyke
wrote:

Why when a try to sum a number of time entries on a spreadsheet who's
total
should be around 192 (worked hours per month) does the total appear as
00:00.
This is despite uning the [hh]:mm format, timesing the whole by 24 and
numerous other 'ideas'
Any help greatly apreciated.

Hi

If you are summing Excel times, then the cell with the formula need to
be formatted as [h]:mm to allow it to cycle past 24 hours.

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Regards

Roger Govier


"Bikertyke" wrote in message
...
Why when a try to sum a number of time entries on a spreadsheet who's
total
should be around 192 (worked hours per month) does the total appear as
00:00.
This is despite uning the [hh]:mm format, timesing the whole by 24 and
numerous other 'ideas'
Any help greatly apreciated.

It appears that Excel will not sum a column of calculated times. My time
column is the product of my start time and finish time minus my lunch time
and therefore a calculation rather than a straight forward number. It works
fine if I enter the pure number but thats not what a spreadsheet is all
about.....is it?
Is this usual.


"Bikertyke" wrote in message
...
Why when a try to sum a number of time entries on a spreadsheet who's
total
should be around 192 (worked hours per month) does the total appear as
00:00.
This is despite uning the [hh]:mm format, timesing the whole by 24 and
numerous other 'ideas'
Any help greatly apreciated.

Summing times works fine.

If you enter real times (8:15:14:30, etc.) and format the total cell as
[h]:mm it will show the result you expect.

What does your data look like?

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HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Bikertyke" wrote in message
...
It appears that Excel will not sum a column of calculated times. My time
column is the product of my start time and finish time minus my lunch time
and therefore a calculation rather than a straight forward number. It
works
fine if I enter the pure number but thats not what a spreadsheet is all
about.....is it?
Is this usual.


"Bikertyke" wrote in message
...
Why when a try to sum a number of time entries on a spreadsheet who's
total
should be around 192 (worked hours per month) does the total appear as
00:00.
This is despite uning the [hh]:mm format, timesing the whole by 24 and
numerous other 'ideas'
Any help greatly apreciated.

What formula are you using? It should work fine.

With start in A1, Finish in B1 and lunch 1 hour and assuming entries of
9:00 and 17:00 then in C1
=B1-A1-TIME(1,0,0)
should return a value of 7:00
Copied down column C and then with a summation in cell C32
=SUM(C1:C31) with a format of [h]:mm should produce your result of
192:00 or whatever.

If you wanted it as decimal time, then
=(B1-A1-TIME(1,0,0))*24 with a format of General, will return 7 and C32
formatted as General would return 192.

--
Regards

Roger Govier


"Bikertyke" wrote in message
...
It appears that Excel will not sum a column of calculated times. My
time
column is the product of my start time and finish time minus my lunch
time
and therefore a calculation rather than a straight forward number. It
works
fine if I enter the pure number but thats not what a spreadsheet is
all
about.....is it?
Is this usual.


"Bikertyke" wrote in message
...
Why when a try to sum a number of time entries on a spreadsheet
who's
total
should be around 192 (worked hours per month) does the total appear
as
00:00.
This is despite uning the [hh]:mm format, timesing the whole by 24
and
numerous other 'ideas'
Any help greatly apreciated.

Did you see my post ?

Steve


On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:30:02 -0000, Bikertyke
wrote:

It appears that Excel will not sum a column of calculated times. My time
column is the product of my start time and finish time minus my lunch
time
and therefore a calculation rather than a straight forward number. It
works
fine if I enter the pure number but thats not what a spreadsheet is all
about.....is it?
Is this usual.


"Bikertyke" wrote in message
...
Why when a try to sum a number of time entries on a spreadsheet who's
total
should be around 192 (worked hours per month) does the total appear as
00:00.
This is despite uning the [hh]:mm format, timesing the whole by 24 and
numerous other 'ideas'
Any help greatly apreciated.

--
Steve (3)

Gents
Your all heroes. Thanks for the assistance.

"Bikertyke" wrote:

Why when a try to sum a number of time entries on a spreadsheet who's total
should be around 192 (worked hours per month) does the total appear as 00:00.
This is despite uning the [hh]:mm format, timesing the whole by 24 and
numerous other 'ideas'
Any help greatly apreciated.