Excel timing help please!!!

e_sauven

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Hi,

I am trying desperately to change the format of the time I have copied and pasted off a website to do some analysis.

The time looks like 11:07 (11 mins, 07 sec), but when I paste it into excel it reads it as 11hours and 7 minutes.

All the posts I have read can convert this time, but I cannot seem to get excel to acknowledge the time as minutes and seconds.

Any help greatly appreciated!

thanks Emilie
 
You're welcome. But I hope you did not overlook Jonmo1's simpler solution: =A1/60, formatted as Custom [m]:ss.

The point is: when we enter min:sec and Excel interprets that as hr:min, in effect Excel is multiplying our input by 60 because there are 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute. So we simply need to reverse that by dividing by 60.

Thanks, yes have just tried that one too! great lots of options!
 
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