Excel Formula minutes convert to hours

"Andy Blackburn" wrote in message
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Go to the menu item Format Cells

Select the Custom Category (at the bottom of the menu
on the left)

Type the following into the 'Type' box in the upper
right of the dialog:

[h]:mm;@

This will give you the standard flight log format -
hhh:mm (no seconds)

This works in Excel 2003 - but I don't think the formats
have changed much if at all since Excel '97

9B



At 19:00 13 December 2004, Marc Ramsey wrote:
Wayne Paul wrote:
Using the format Category of 'Time' and the Type '37:20:55'
I entered 12:22,
14:38, 72:14 and the above mentioned 45:36. Summing
this column gave an
accurate total of 144:50:00.

What version of Excel are you using?

I tried this in Excel 97 (I'm too cheap to upgrade).
The key seems to
be using the '37:30:55' time format in the Format Cells
dialog. If any
other time format is used, the values are interpreted
as time of day,
and wrap around at 24 hours.

Marc





That one works a treat;-)

Peter.

"CV" wrote in message
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Mal wrote:
Hi does anyone know the formula for excel so it will add the minutes
after
the decimal and convert them to hours.

I found it easier to do hours and minutes in separate Excel columns.

Say J is the hours column and K is minutes for each entry.

Then we sum up total hours, including decimal fractions of hours,
in a hidden L column:

L10=L9+J10+K10/60

(note: L9 was the previous total, before this entry)

Then the total time in hours and minutes is represented in
column M (hours) and N (minutes) respectively:

M10=INTEGER(L10)
N10=L10*60-M10*60

Cheers CV
At the risk of being too trivial, if the figures are already input, can
split them by:

say hour:mins in A1, put B1=INT(A1) (gives hours in B1), C1=(A1-B1)*100
(gives minutes in C1)

Keith

Keith W wrote:
At the risk of being too trivial, if the figures are already input, can
split them by:

say hour:mins in A1, put B1=INT(A1) (gives hours in B1), C1=(A1-B1)*100
(gives minutes in C1)

Yep, that would do the job for one single entry.
However it would not allow you to add two or more
entries to make a total.

To keep a running total of your flying time
you need something a bit more elaborate.
CV

say hour:mins in A1, put B1=INT(A1) (gives hours in B1), C1=(A1-B1)*100
(gives minutes in C1)

Yep, that would do the job for one single entry.
However it would not allow you to add two or more
entries to make a total.

Yes - but I was putting over the principal. I assume that the list of times
is in (say) column A. Set dummy columns B and C to carry the split times -
copy the formula down as far as necessay, add and revert back concatenated
time to bottom of column A (using the contraction descibed earlier).

Keith

I formatted the cell to "Time" and display hh:mm

Then when you "SUM" the column, the math is correct.

to get the totals to total a large number of hours.. like 310:20 (310 hrs
20 minutes) log book total.. you will need to pick the hh:mm:ss format. the
display will now read 310:20:00

BT

"Mal" wrote in message
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Hi does anyone know the formula for excel so it will add the minutes after
the decimal and convert them to hours.

Need to check my log book times and make a database off information types
flown etc.

EG

1.33
1.56
=2.89

Needs to say 60 mins is one hour

so

1.33
1.56
=3.29

???????????????

=SUM(E1:E23)

=IF(A31000,TIMEVALUE(LEFT(A3,1)&":"&RIGHT(A3,2)),T IMEVALUE(LEFT(A3,2)&":"&RIGHT(A3,2)))
The formatting of the cells in column B is HH:MM.

Thanks Mal

At 12:00 12 December 2004, Mal wrote:
Hi does anyone know the formula for excel so it will
add the minutes after the decimal and convert them
to hours.

format the cells to h:mm
you can also format to hh:mm
or even to hh:mm:ss
when adding two cells is likely to lead to hours in
excess of 9
format [hh]:mm otherwise the sum will go wrong

enter the times as 1:27 (1 hour 27 min)
best rgrds Chris

Chris Kaminski wrote:
At 12:00 12 December 2004, Mal wrote:

Hi does anyone know the formula for excel so it will
add the minutes after the decimal and convert them

to hours.

format the cells to h:mm
you can also format to hh:mm
or even to hh:mm:ss
when adding two cells is likely to lead to hours in
excess of 9
format [hh]:mm otherwise the sum will go wrong

enter the times as 1:27 (1 hour 27 min)
best rgrds Chris

What is VERY annoying with that solution is that you
cannot enter flights less than one hour by simply
writing the number of minutes.

Eg. for a 23 minute flight you actually _have_ to
write 0:27 which means you have to press four keys
instead of two.

CV

CV wrote:
Eg. for a 23 minute flight you actually _have_ to
write 0:27 which means you have to press four keys
oops, I meant 0:23 of course

instead of two.

CV

"Mal" wrote in message
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Hi does anyone know the formula for excel so it will add the minutes after
the decimal and convert them to hours.

One way is to put hours in one cell and minutes in the other and then
convert all to minutes in a non-displayed cell [(hours X 60) + minutes]. At the
bottom of the page you add together all of the minutes and then convert back to
hours and minutes by using the interger (INT) function. To get the hours, use
the formula [Int (minutes/60)] =hours. To recover the fraction of an hour in
minutes, multiply the hours (from the previous formula) times 60 and then
subtract from the minutes.

Clear as mud?

Vaughn


Need to check my log book times and make a database off information types
flown etc.

EG

1.33
1.56
=2.89

Needs to say 60 mins is one hour

so

1.33
1.56
=3.29

???????????????

=SUM(E1:E23)


=IF(A31000,TIMEVALUE(LEFT(A3,1)&":"&RIGHT(A3,2)),T IMEVALUE(LEFT(A3,2)&":"&RIGHT(
A3,2)))
The formatting of the cells in column B is HH:MM.

Thanks Mal

You don't need Excel. Just go sailing on the Great Lakes in November.
They say that the waves turn the minutes to hours...

Bob K.