Coverting time
 

I guess I am not being clear as to what I want to do. I take each card and
enter the times in and out into excel for the whole week for each day. I
need each cell that I enter the time into to be converted to military time
for the hours and the minutes are divided by 60 to get the # to add/subract.
So I would enter in @ 6:59am out for lunch 12:00pm back @12:30pm out @
4:25pm. I need the time converted to look like this in @ 6.98 out @12.00
back @ 12.50 out at 16.42 to get total hours of 8.94. That is adding 12 to
pm hours and dividing all minutes by 60 (actual minutes in an hour). I want
to be able to enter using a decimal instead of a colon in the time. What I
do now is take the card and change each punch by dividing the minutes by 60
by hand
and enter the result in the spreadsheet. I am trying to eliminate having to
do the division by hand and then enter to excel. I am hoping to enter a
formula in the next cell that converts 12:30 to 12.50 and 4:25 to 4.50
(notice the colon and decimal). Is this possible
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Kim

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Kim

What you want is fairly simple. Where A2 is your time:
= A2 * 24
Format the result as a number with decimals, not as Date or Time

Results:
12:30 am = 0.50
4:25 am = 4.42 (not 4.5)
12:30 pm = 12.5
4:25 pm = 16.42

FYI: Excel stores time as a decimal value (where 1 = 1 day)
12:00 pm (noon) = 1/2 day = 0.50
1 hour = 1/24 = 0.041666667 (aka 1:00 am)
1 minute = 1/24/60 = 0.0006944444 (approx) (aka 12:01 am)

HTH,
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George Nicholson

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"Kim" wrote in message
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I guess I am not being clear as to what I want to do. I take each card and
enter the times in and out into excel for the whole week for each day. I
need each cell that I enter the time into to be converted to military time
for the hours and the minutes are divided by 60 to get the # to
add/subract.
So I would enter in @ 6:59am out for lunch 12:00pm back @12:30pm out @
4:25pm. I need the time converted to look like this in @ 6.98 out @12.00
back @ 12.50 out at 16.42 to get total hours of 8.94. That is adding 12
to
pm hours and dividing all minutes by 60 (actual minutes in an hour). I
want
to be able to enter using a decimal instead of a colon in the time. What
I
do now is take the card and change each punch by dividing the minutes by
60
by hand
and enter the result in the spreadsheet. I am trying to eliminate having
to
do the division by hand and then enter to excel. I am hoping to enter a
formula in the next cell that converts 12:30 to 12.50 and 4:25 to 4.50
(notice the colon and decimal). Is this possible
--
Kim

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Kim