Format Cells -> Time Format - pls Help!

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Hello everybody!
Can anyone help me on a little problem?

I'm importing this text:


00:01:00
00:01:50
00:32:11
00:59:22
01:04:22
08:17:11
19:23:50
58:34:22
59:49:22


First 2 numbers (mm) are minutes, then seconds and then hundredth of seconds. But I can't figure out a way to import this data proprely!

I want to format this column like this: mmm:ss,00 so minutes would NOT be transformed in hours and seconds would show their split seconds, those hundredth of seconds. Like this:


mmm:ss.00
-------------------------
000:01.00
000:01.50
000:32.11
000:59.22
001:04.22
008:17.11
019:23.50
058:34.22
059:49.22




I've tried eveything on the format cells help but I just can't figure it out! It's very frustanting! Can anyone take a minute to enlight me? Please!
Thanks in advance!
 

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Thank you for reading, I just did what you wrote and the result is:

01:00.00
01:50.00
32:11.00
59:22.00
64:22.00
497:11.00
1163:50.00
3514:22.00
3589:22.00


Wrong! Because Excel formats my minutes as hours :( First tab are minutes! not hours. Last tab are hundreth of seconds and the middle tab is seconds. That's why I started a thread - I tried everything before and didn't figure it out.

Cheers!
 
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Oops - sorry, I didn't appreciate that you were getting these values in format 00:00:00 already (but as you said, with different meanings from the way Excel handles time).

You'll need to import these values as text in which case, and use a formula to convert such as:

Code:
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,":",".",2)+0

and format the formulas cell in the way I gave above.

Richard
 
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Thank you!

It works but only without that extra "+0" at the end of your formula.

Works just great without it, but I'm curios to ask: what's it for?


Best regards!


edit: hope you have an excelent week! as excelent as you just made my day! :)
 
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The +0 is there to coerce Excel to convert a text value (in a numerical format) to a numerical value (ie to which formatting can be applied, sums done etc). i needed this in my formula on my machine as otherwise Excel didn't recognise that I had a numeric value (ie it didn't apply my custom format to it, because it thought I had text). For whatever reason though, you seem to be able to do without it!

Or is it the case that now you simply have the values in a text format? You can check by seeing if they add up when you select a range of them (you should see a sum in your status bar towards the bottom right).

Richard

EDIT: It may well be that text values are perfectly adequate for your needs, in which case, I'm lad I could help! :biggrin:
 
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