I'm trying to do calculations involving hours & minutes. Whenever the answer
is more than 24 hours, Excel automatically subtracts 24 from the answer -
27:15 becomes 03:15. I don't want to use decimals instead, so is it possible
to get round this?
Thanks

Format cell with custom format: [h]:mm or [hh]:mm
The brackets prevent 24 modulation
The first will show for example 9:25 and 15:25
The second will show 09:25 and 15:25
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"nickq2" wrote in message
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I'm trying to do calculations involving hours & minutes. Whenever the
answer
is more than 24 hours, Excel automatically subtracts 24 from the answer -
27:15 becomes 03:15. I don't want to use decimals instead, so is it
possible
to get round this?
Thanks

Just format the cell with the formula in as:

[h]:mm

This allows times like 27:15 to be displayed.

Hope this helps.

Pete

Try a custom format of the resultant cell:

Format/Cells/Custom

and then enter: dd:hh:mm:ss

This assumes you want to show the # of days, hour, minute and seconds


"nickq2" wrote in message
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I'm trying to do calculations involving hours & minutes. Whenever the
answer
is more than 24 hours, Excel automatically subtracts 24 from the answer -
27:15 becomes 03:15. I don't want to use decimals instead, so is it
possible
to get round this?
Thanks

Use a custom format of [hh]:mm then the hours will just get bigger than
24

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Absolutely perfect!! Thank you to all of you.

"Larry S" wrote:

Try a custom format of the resultant cell:

Format/Cells/Custom

and then enter: dd:hh:mm:ss

This assumes you want to show the # of days, hour, minute and seconds


"nickq2" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to do calculations involving hours & minutes. Whenever the
answer
is more than 24 hours, Excel automatically subtracts 24 from the answer -
27:15 becomes 03:15. I don't want to use decimals instead, so is it
possible
to get round this?
Thanks