I am trying to just enter minutes and seconds in to a cell but Excel keeps
converting it to hours:minutes:seconds. (E.I. if I enter 15:00 it converts it
to 3:00:00 pm.) I have tryed using the mm:ss format and it still converts to
h:m:s. How do I stop this?

0:15:00
will give you what you are looking for.

HTH,
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Gary Brown

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"Thornpaw" wrote:

I am trying to just enter minutes and seconds in to a cell but Excel keeps
converting it to hours:minutes:seconds. (E.I. if I enter 15:00 it converts it
to 3:00:00 pm.) I have tryed using the mm:ss format and it still converts to
h:m:s. How do I stop this?

When I put that it converts it to 12:15:00 am.

"Gary L Brown" wrote:

0:15:00
will give you what you are looking for.

HTH,
--
Gary Brown

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"Thornpaw" wrote:

I am trying to just enter minutes and seconds in to a cell but Excel keeps
converting it to hours:minutes:seconds. (E.I. if I enter 15:00 it converts it
to 3:00:00 pm.) I have tryed using the mm:ss format and it still converts to
h:m:s. How do I stop this?

Of course. There is no time such time as 15:00 but there is a time of 15
minutes past midnight [12:15:00 am]. Using your format of mm:ss format, this
will show the 15 minutes you asked about vs the 15 hours (ie 3 pm) you had
been getting.

If you are looking for 15 mnute increments...
I suggest that you enter .25 in one cell and convert it to minutes in
another cell.
For example:
Cell A1 = .25
Cell B1 =A1*60
This will give you the NUMBER 15 vs the TIME value of 15 minutes

If you are trying to do something like a timecard...
Start time - A1 = 08:00 AM
End time - B1 = 04:30 PM
Break in hrs - C1 = 0.50
Paid Time - D1 =((+B1-A1)*24)-C1

If you are trying to subtract one time from another...
A1 = 00:15:25
B1 = 00:25:18
C1 =(B1-A1)*24*60*60 = 593 seconds
OR
C1 =(B1-A1)*24*60 = 9.883 minutes
OR
C1 =+B1-A1 = 00:09:53 <= formatted as 'mm:ss'


Hope one of these options is what you are looking for.
Sincerely,
--
Gary Brown

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"Thornpaw" wrote:

When I put that it converts it to 12:15:00 am.

"Gary L Brown" wrote:

0:15:00
will give you what you are looking for.

HTH,
--
Gary Brown

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"Thornpaw" wrote:

I am trying to just enter minutes and seconds in to a cell but Excel keeps
converting it to hours:minutes:seconds. (E.I. if I enter 15:00 it converts it
to 3:00:00 pm.) I have tryed using the mm:ss format and it still converts to
h:m:s. How do I stop this?