Accept Military Time without a colon ":"

DjMikeWatt

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Hi there,

Here is the my situation. I want to enter time into the spreadsheet as military time. Typing 1445 is much faster than 14:45, and it's insanely faster than 2:45 PM. The problem is, that Excel forces me to use the colon on military time (even though military time doesn't actually use a colon). People say, "Excel doesn't know it's a time without the colon", which is complete nonsense because you can format the cell as TIME. That alone tells it that you're entering time.

So... is there a way that I can tell excel to handle cells like this:

I type It displays
0945 9:45 AM
1130 11:30 AM
1400 2:00 PM

But, at the same time, is able to do time calculations on the cells (=C1-A1-30), where A1 is a start time and C1 is an end time (and 30 is just a break being taken out).

This is what I want to do and, while I am completely amazed that this isn't possible by default in Excel, I believe that there is probably a way around it... hoping to find that way here.

THANKS
 
The sum is correct, you have already been told that changing the format does not change the value only the appearance.

Change your formulas to the below...


Sheet1

*ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW
****

<colgroup><col style="font-weight:bold; width:30px; "><col style="width:152px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:62px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:62px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:62px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:62px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:62px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:62px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:81px;"><col style="width:41px;"><col style="width:80px;"></colgroup><tbody>
[TD="bgcolor: #cacaca, align: center"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Oscar Marrero[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]1:30 PM[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7:30 PM[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6:00:00[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]0:00:00[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ccffcc, align: center"]8:00 AM[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ccffcc, align: center"]4:00 PM[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]9:00 AM[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]5:30 PM[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7:30 AM[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4:00 PM[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]9:00 AM[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]5:30 PM[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]0[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]38.00[/TD]

</tbody>

Spreadsheet Formulas
CellFormula
D9=FLOOR(IF(C9-B9>8.5,C9-B9-0.5,C9-B9),1/24)
G9=FLOOR(IF(F9-E9>8.5,F9-E9-0.5,F9-E9),1/24)
J9=FLOOR(IF(I9-H9>8.5,I9-H9-0.5,I9-H9),1/24)
M9=FLOOR(IF(L9-K9>8.5,L9-K9-0.5,L9-K9),1/24)
P9=FLOOR(IF(O9-N9>8.5,O9-N9-0.5,O9-N9),1/24)
S9=FLOOR(IF(R9-Q9>8.5,R9-Q9-0.5,R9-Q9),1/24)
V9=FLOOR(IF(U9-T9>8.5,U9-T9-0.5,U9-T9),1/24)
W9=SUM(D9,G9,J9,M9,P9,S9,V9)*24

<tbody>
</tbody>

<tbody>
</tbody>

That's it! Thank you so much! I'm reading up on some of these Excel functions that I wasn't familiar with. I really appreciate everyone's help. This has been a very helpful group. Thank you!
 
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