Manipulating imported times

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Hi folks.

I have copied some athletic times from a website into Excel 2007.
These times look like 03:56.8 on the website and in the body of the
worksheet. I want to convert these times into seconds, in this case
236.8 s. When I go to the formula bar the times are recorded in the
form 12:03:57 a.m. I have tries various things but the decimals of a
second seem to have gone.

Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Gord Dibben]

A1 contains 03:56.8

In B1 enter =D1*24*60*60

Format to General or number and see 236.8


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

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A1 contains  03:56.8

In B1 enter   =D1*24*60*60

Format to General or number and see  236.8

Gord Dibben     MS Excel MVP







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Magic. Thanks Gord.

 

[Gord Dibben]

I see you overcame the typo........D1.........in my post<g>

Thanks for the feedback.

Lots of good stuff for working with dates and times at Chip Pearson's site.

Link to his Topic Index will get you started.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/topic.aspx


Gord