times in excel

2004-03-08 Thread Chris Burton
Hi muggers I have a quick query regarding time in excel. Without thinking in a previous life, I have coded all the times of sightings etc as straight numeric in excel and had some notion of being able to convert to a time field later. I have tried reformatting the cells, but that converts all

Re: times in excel

2004-03-08 Thread Dark Servant
I'm not exactly sure I know what your trying to say but you can calculate time differences very easily. Lets say your start times are from the cells A2 to A10 and your end times are B2 to B10. You want to calculate end times - start times. Go to the cell C2 and type =SUM(B2)-(A2) After enteri

RE: times in excel

2004-03-09 Thread James&Rosemary Rutherford
decimal of a day, then you can tak one from the other (again this will be decimal of a day which will have to be converted back to minutes or hours) Regards James Rutherford Original Message Follows From: Chris Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WAMUG Mailing List" Subject

Re: times in excel

2004-03-09 Thread Onno Benschop
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 09:33, James&Rosemary Rutherford wrote: > Chris, > It depends on how you entered the times. Yes. > Excel stores dates and times as a number (whole number for the date, decimal > portion for the time.) Yes. > e.g. 9th March 2004 6.25 am is represented by 38,055.268002778 >