Working with times in military/international format.

[MidWest Yankee]

I enter hundreds of start and stop times to determine room occupancy time. I
would like to get away from inserting the colon in the time, which would
greatly enhance entries with the number key pad. How do I format a cell to
allow entry of a 4 digit time (e.g. 1955 or 2315) in military/international
format? I need to subtract Start from Stop Time, but the answer can be in
hh:mm format.

Thank You in advance for any helpful suggestions.

 

[Pete_UK]

Chip Pearson has some code here:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeEntry.htm

which allows you to do that.

A quick alternative is to set up autocorrect to change a . to a : and
then you can enter the time from the numeric keypad and use a full-
stop instead of the colon.

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[David Biddulph]

You could convert the data with=--TEXT(A1,"00\:00")