I am trying to create a format for military time in excel

I thought they were the same. Give example of what you expect to see for 6
pm. (18:00)

"kidsmeasy" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a format for military time in excel

for 6pm(1800) would be correct and that is the way i would like for it to
show in the cell.

"Meebers" wrote:

I thought they were the same. Give example of what you expect to see for 6
pm. (18:00)

"kidsmeasy" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a format for military time in excel

If you mean leading zeroes and without the colon, then Custom Format the
cell with hhmm.

Rick


"kidsmeasy" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a format for military time in excel

Thanks, I will give it a try.

"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote:

If you mean leading zeroes and without the colon, then Custom Format the
cell with hhmm.

Rick


"kidsmeasy" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a format for military time in excel

I tried the format but when I input the time and then tab to the next cell
the numbers turn to all zeros.

"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote:

If you mean leading zeroes and without the colon, then Custom Format the
cell with hhmm.

Rick


"kidsmeasy" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a format for military time in excel

To get all zeroes means you are entering the numbers for you time without
the colon. Your subject line said you wanted to "change regular 24 hour
format to military time"... I assumed you meant that your entries would be
"real time values", that is, with colons in them (and that the Custom Format
would change them to look like you wanted). If you want, or are doing,
something different than that, you need to tell us what it is.

Rick


"kidsmeasy" wrote in message
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I tried the format but when I input the time and then tab to the next cell
the numbers turn to all zeros.

"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote:

If you mean leading zeroes and without the colon, then Custom Format the
cell with hhmm.

Rick


"kidsmeasy" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a format for military time in excel

I am trying to input the time without the colons.

"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote:

To get all zeroes means you are entering the numbers for you time without
the colon. Your subject line said you wanted to "change regular 24 hour
format to military time"... I assumed you meant that your entries would be
"real time values", that is, with colons in them (and that the Custom Format
would change them to look like you wanted). If you want, or are doing,
something different than that, you need to tell us what it is.

Rick


"kidsmeasy" wrote in message
...
I tried the format but when I input the time and then tab to the next cell
the numbers turn to all zeros.

"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote:

If you mean leading zeroes and without the colon, then Custom Format the
cell with hhmm.

Rick


"kidsmeasy" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a format for military time in excel

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I am trying to create a format for military time in excel

What are you planning on doing with these entries? If it is just for
display, you could just format it to forced 4-digit numbers, "0000".
Don't worry about date/time format.

If you are planning on adding or subtracting as time and date values,
that will be harder. Excel needs it to be entered as a time, with the
colon. Otherwise it can't tell the difference since, for example,
today at 1800 is actually the number 39611.75 to Excel. You could
enter "1800" in one cell and have other cells reformat it to time for
any operation you need to calculate.