Excel Formula minutes convert to hours

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

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

"Mal" wrote in message
...
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

Why not format the cells to a time format thus-
Format - cells - time - 37:30:55

This will give time in hours minutes and seconds that can be added

Sorry excell dont work like that. If you try to enter say 1hr 30min as 1.5
it trys to use it as a date function and displays 12:00:00 and if you try to
add times it treats them also as dates such that 12:00:00 + 12:00:00 =
0:00:00.

I use two columns and add one mod 60 etc.

Peter.



Excell does work like that! ie for a flight of 8hrs 57min you put 8:57
You have to use the format including seconds at the one for just hrs:min will
give you a false reading at higher values.
I have entered my logbook for over 600 flights using this method and it works
for me.

"OscarCVox" wrote in message
...
Why not format the cells to a time format thus-
Format - cells - time - 37:30:55

This will give time in hours minutes and seconds that can be added

Sorry excell dont work like that. If you try to enter say 1hr 30min as 1.5
it trys to use it as a date function and displays 12:00:00 and if you try
to
add times it treats them also as dates such that 12:00:00 + 12:00:00 =
0:00:00.

I use two columns and add one mod 60 etc.

Peter.



Excell does work like that! ie for a flight of 8hrs 57min you put 8:57
You have to use the format including seconds at the one for just hrs:min
will
give you a false reading at higher values.
I have entered my logbook for over 600 flights using this method and it
works
for me.


OK try summing a few time that when added are greater than 24 hrs. Or put a
time in of 45hrs 36mins and see what it does then.

Peter

"Peter Seddon" wrote in message
OK try summing a few time that when added are greater than 24 hrs. Or put
a
time in of 45hrs 36mins and see what it does then.

Peter


Peter,

I have been watching this thread and thought I would see what happens on my
computer using Excel as delivered in Office 2000.

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?

Wayne,
http://www.soaridaho.com/

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

"Marc Ramsey" wrote in message
. com...
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

I'm on excel 2003 and the 37:30:55 time format aint available to me.

Peter.