Daily tips for using Microsoft Excel.

Wednesday, January 23, 2002

PPD asks"How can I format a cell that has data in seconds to show it as hours:minutes:seconds?

For example, if I have 16548 seconds it should show 4:35:48"


First, it's important to remember that Excel keeps dates informatios as day fractions. Therefor, to show the value it first needs to be converted like this:

Divide el value in seconds (16548) in (60 s / min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day) to get

=16548/(24*60*60)
or
=A1/(24*60*60)

This result can then be formatted as hh:mm:ss