Help Please on adding times

[Guest]

I have read a bunch of the previous questions, none seem to finish what I need.

I have 4300 cells, in a single column,all with times formatted as shown:
[hh]:mm, or represented as: 03:12; 3-hours, 12-minutes. I tried to add the
times as follows: sum(m2:m4300) which keeps adding into 0. Does anyone have
a way to add these in the sum block without having to do this:
sum(m2+m3+m4+m5) all the way to m4300. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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[Pete_UK]

If you add up a lot of times, they will quickly exceed 24 hours, and
Excel will start to show them as days (or dates). Just apply a custom
format to the cell with the formula in, set to [hh]:mm - this will
prevent hours above 24 being displayed as days. However, there is a
maximum number of hours that can be shown with this format - I think
it is 9999, so if you have 4000+ cells and your times are typically 3
hours or more, then you will exceed this limit.

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Guest]

Are you certain you have those cells formatted as TIME and not as text? I
just set up 3 cells formatted as Time using the 13:30 format shown in the
format picker as:
3:12
6:18
9:30
and then below them put
=Sum(A1:A3) and got the expected 19:00 result. But in 3 other cells
formatted as Text, the result was also my expected 0 (zero).

 

[Guest]

Yes they are as times. I can add them by doing this:
=sum(m2+m3+m4+m5........) and they add just fine, but not any other way, like
this: =sum(m2:m4300) it still comes as 0 zero. I am trying to add very small
segemnts of time; i.e. 00:05, 00:12, 00:03, etc. no joy.... Any other
thoughts? Thanks so far...

Are you certain you have those cells formatted as TIME and not as text? I
just set up 3 cells formatted as Time using the 13:30 format shown in the
format picker as:
3:12
6:18
9:30
and then below them put
=Sum(A1:A3) and got the expected 19:00 result. But in 3 other cells
formatted as Text, the result was also my expected 0 (zero).

I have read a bunch of the previous questions, none seem to finish what I need.

I have 4300 cells, in a single column,all with times formatted as shown:
[hh]:mm, or represented as: 03:12; 3-hours, 12-minutes. I tried to add the
times as follows: sum(m2:m4300) which keeps adding into 0. Does anyone have
a way to add these in the sum block without having to do this:
sum(m2+m3+m4+m5) all the way to m4300. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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[Dave Peterson]

It sounds like the stuff in M2:M4300 isn't really times--just text that looks
like times.

I'd try this first:
Select M2:m4300
Edit|Replace
what: : (colon)
with: :
replace all

Since you're changing the cells, excel will see them as times.

Yes they are as times. I can add them by doing this:
=sum(m2+m3+m4+m5........) and they add just fine, but not any other way, like
this: =sum(m2:m4300) it still comes as 0 zero. I am trying to add very small
segemnts of time; i.e. 00:05, 00:12, 00:03, etc. no joy.... Any other
thoughts? Thanks so far...

Are you certain you have those cells formatted as TIME and not as text? I
just set up 3 cells formatted as Time using the 13:30 format shown in the
format picker as:
3:12
6:18
9:30
and then below them put
=Sum(A1:A3) and got the expected 19:00 result. But in 3 other cells
formatted as Text, the result was also my expected 0 (zero).

I have read a bunch of the previous questions, none seem to finish what I need.

I have 4300 cells, in a single column,all with times formatted as shown:
[hh]:mm, or represented as: 03:12; 3-hours, 12-minutes. I tried to add the
times as follows: sum(m2:m4300) which keeps adding into 0. Does anyone have
a way to add these in the sum block without having to do this:
sum(m2+m3+m4+m5) all the way to m4300. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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[Guest]

If they really are Time entries (which you seem to have confirmed), then see
what Pete_UK had to say about limit in the first response to your original
posting - he may have the answer there: that the total amount of time is
blowing you out of the water. 4000 * 3 minutes = 12000 minutes = 200 days
and that's well beyond the limits he mentioned.

Yes they are as times. I can add them by doing this:
=sum(m2+m3+m4+m5........) and they add just fine, but not any other way, like
this: =sum(m2:m4300) it still comes as 0 zero. I am trying to add very small
segemnts of time; i.e. 00:05, 00:12, 00:03, etc. no joy.... Any other
thoughts? Thanks so far...

Are you certain you have those cells formatted as TIME and not as text? I
just set up 3 cells formatted as Time using the 13:30 format shown in the
format picker as:
3:12
6:18
9:30
and then below them put
=Sum(A1:A3) and got the expected 19:00 result. But in 3 other cells
formatted as Text, the result was also my expected 0 (zero).

I have read a bunch of the previous questions, none seem to finish what I need.

I have 4300 cells, in a single column,all with times formatted as shown:
[hh]:mm, or represented as: 03:12; 3-hours, 12-minutes. I tried to add the
times as follows: sum(m2:m4300) which keeps adding into 0. Does anyone have
a way to add these in the sum block without having to do this:
sum(m2+m3+m4+m5) all the way to m4300. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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[Guest]

Sorry about the delay in resonding, impromptu meeting. I did the replace all
: function and low and behold, the time came as it should have. That was the
trick. You folks have all been outstanding through every need I have ever had
here. Thank you all so much for your time and efforts. Champ.

It sounds like the stuff in M2:M4300 isn't really times--just text that looks
like times.

I'd try this first:
Select M2:m4300
Edit|Replace
what: : (colon)
with: :
replace all

Since you're changing the cells, excel will see them as times.

Yes they are as times. I can add them by doing this:
=sum(m2+m3+m4+m5........) and they add just fine, but not any other way, like
this: =sum(m2:m4300) it still comes as 0 zero. I am trying to add very small
segemnts of time; i.e. 00:05, 00:12, 00:03, etc. no joy.... Any other
thoughts? Thanks so far...

Are you certain you have those cells formatted as TIME and not as text? I
just set up 3 cells formatted as Time using the 13:30 format shown in the
format picker as:
3:12
6:18
9:30
and then below them put
=Sum(A1:A3) and got the expected 19:00 result. But in 3 other cells
formatted as Text, the result was also my expected 0 (zero).


:

I have read a bunch of the previous questions, none seem to finish what I need.

I have 4300 cells, in a single column,all with times formatted as shown:
[hh]:mm, or represented as: 03:12; 3-hours, 12-minutes. I tried to add the
times as follows: sum(m2:m4300) which keeps adding into 0. Does anyone have
a way to add these in the sum block without having to do this:
sum(m2+m3+m4+m5) all the way to m4300. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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