Help needed converting minutes and seconds

[philippa0212]

Hi

I need to convert a number such as 034555

ie 3 minutes 45 seconds 55 milliseconds

into seconds ie 225.55 seconds

Anyone got any ideas? The only way I can do it is to separate the number across columns which I specifically didn't want to do.

 

[Richard Schollar]

Hi & Welcome to the Board!!

Good to see a fellow Southamptonite too!

Here's one way:

Excel Workbook
	A	B
1	034555	225.55
Sheet2

 

[philippa0212]

Works great THANKS, is there anyway to action that into just one column, ie automatically converts it when the time is typed.

 

[Richard Schollar]

Yes there is, but this involves VBA. If you right-click on the sheet tab name where you want this to happen, choose View Code and then paste the following code into the worksheet module that will open:

<font face=Courier New><SPAN style="color:#00007F">Private</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN> Worksheet_Change(<SPAN style="color:#00007F">ByVal</SPAN> Target <SPAN style="color:#00007F">As</SPAN> Range)
<SPAN style="color:#00007F">Dim</SPAN> s <SPAN style="color:#00007F">As</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">String</SPAN>
<SPAN style="color:#00007F">If</SPAN> Target.Count > 1 <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Then</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Exit</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN>
<SPAN style="color:#00007F">If</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Not</SPAN> Intersect(Target, Range("A:A")) <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Is</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Nothing</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Then</SPAN>
    Application.EnableEvents = <SPAN style="color:#00007F">False</SPAN>
    s = Format(Target.Value, "000000")
    Target.Value = (CDbl(Right$(s, 2)) / 100) + CDbl(Mid$(s, Len(s) - 3, 2)) + (CDbl(Left$(s, Len(s) - 4)) * 60)
    Application.EnableEvents = <SPAN style="color:#00007F">True</SPAN>
<SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">If</SPAN>
<SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN></FONT>

This will automatically cahnge the value enetered into the A column from format "034555" say to its respective value in seconds (ie 225.55 in this case). Note that there is hardly any error checking involved here, so if somebody were to entrer text instead (ray "Richard" for example) then the code will bug out and report an error. Let me know what you think.

 

[philippa0212]

THANK YOU!!! This worked like a dream!