Dan Lewis wrote in gmane.comp.openoffice.questions about: Re: Calc: How do I add up cumulative time (hour/min) values?
> On Monday June 04 2007 1:49 pm, David M wrote: >> >> Is it possible to set an appropriate cell format that will allow me >> to add up these time values to get the correct cumulative total? > > It is all in how you format your time. What you need to do in your > time cells is to create a custom format. Look at the Format code in > the Options section at the bottom. With a 24 hour clock, you should > see: HH:MM or HH:MM:SS. To do what you want to do, change it to > [HH]:MM or [HH]:MM:SS. Click the green check to the right, and then > Click OK. Many thanks, that seems to have done the trick! My next question, of course, is _what_ has that actually done? What does adding the square brackets around the hour format characters actually mean in terms of changing the formatting? Arguably, I don't need to know - as it seems to have done what I needed - but I like to know about these sort of things :) I have to say that this is not something that I would have ever guessed for myself. Perhaps I was looking in the wrong place, but I didn't spot any mention of this in the program help. Thanks also to everybody else who replied, especially also those who sent sample spreadsheets. David. -- David M. Edinburgh, Scotland. ---- [en,fr,(de) <-- corrections welcome] * Please only quote minimum required for context; interleave reply text. * On-list replies preferred. Please don't 'cc:' list messages to me! * HTML/slug-trails/excess-quoting/no-context/zero-content => filtered! >> Read lists as news: nntp://news.gmane.org info: http://gmane.org/ << --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
