time from minutes to decimals

[Guest]

I want change the time in my worksheet.
I need change 3:30 to 3.5 decimals numbers

 

[Bob Phillips]

=A1*24

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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[JE McGimpsey]

XL times are representable by fractional days, so multiply the time by
the number of minutes in a day:

A1: 0:03:30
A2: =A1*24*60 ===> 3.5

when formatted as General or Number. A bit more efficiently:

A2: =A1*1440

 

[SteveW]

That's in minutes isn't it ?

But your answer came back in hours ??

Steve