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Having a problem formatting short time
I am having a problem formatting time in my spreadsheet. If I type in a
number (ex. 1300) and then try to format the cell this is what happens .... the cell changes to 00:00 and the formula bar shows 7/23/1903 12:00 AM. Can anyone help me? I give up! -- |
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Having a problem formatting short time
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:04:00 -0700, clueless
wrote: I am having a problem formatting time in my spreadsheet. If I type in a number (ex. 1300) and then try to format the cell this is what happens .... the cell changes to 00:00 and the formula bar shows 7/23/1903 12:00 AM. Can anyone help me? I give up! Formatting does not affect how Excel interprets your date or time entry. If you type 1300 into a cell, and then format it as a time, Excel will interpret that as 1300 days (and no hours) since 1/1/1900. That happens to be 7/23/1903 12:00 AM If you want to enter 1300 as a time, you must enter the ":". eg. 13:00. There are methods of entering 1300 and having Excel convert it to 13:00, but you need to use VBA to do that. See http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeEntry.htm --ron |
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