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» Entering Times Quickly
CATEGORY: Excel Date & Time Formulas
VERSIONS: All Microsoft Excel Versions
Problem:

Entering times quickly, without having to use a colon to separate hours and minutes.

Solution:

Use the TIMEVALUE, IF, LEFT, and RIGHT functions as shown in the following formula:
=TIMEVALUE(IF(A2<1000, LEFT(A2,1),LEFT(A2,2))&":"&RIGHT(A2,2))
Enter the above formula in column B and format the cells as "hh:mm".
The formula will convert each numerical value in column A to a properly formatted time value.


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enter HH:MM:SS quickly
Keith wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST
Format A cells as Number/Custom 000000
Format B cells as General
Enter times 15:34:56 as 153456, 7:23:45 as 72345
Formula in B =
=MID(B4+10000000,3,2)&":"&MID(B4+10000000,5,2)&":"&RIGHT(B4,2)
enter HH:MM:SS quickly
Keith wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST
Format A cells as Number/Custom 000000
Format B cells as General
Enter times 15:34:56 as 153456, 7:23:45 as 72345
Formula in B =
=MID(B4+10000000,3,2)&":"&MID(B4+10000000,5,2)&":"&RIGHT(B4,2)
Enter HHMMSS quickly
redchequer wrote on August 25, 2005 00:31 EST
Format A as Number/Custom 000000
Formar B as General
Enter times in A 15:45:12 as 154512, 7:56:45 as 75645
Formula in B =
=MID(B4+10000000,3,2)&":"&MID(B4+10000000,5,2)&":"&RIGHT(B4,2)
Reply: redchequer
Alan wrote on August 29, 2005 01:56 EST
Hi redchequer,

[QUOTE=redchequer]Format A as Number/Custom 000000
Formar B as General
Enter times in A 15:45:12 as 154512, 7:56:45 as 75645
Formula in B =
=MID(B4+10000000,3,2)&":"&MID(B4+10000000,5,2)&":"&RIGHT(B4,2)[/QUOTE]Is there a typo in there? This doesn't seem to work.

Alan.



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