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471943 2006-07-19 03:45:00 I am trying to formualte a spreadsheet that will automatically work out the number of hours if i enter the start and finish times on a shift and then tally all the days for the week. The start and fininsh times i have specified the cells as time hh:mm and the total number is cell 1 - cell 2, however i cannot get the total to add correctly.

any ideas ?
jonp (7517)
471944 2006-07-19 03:53:00 Hi

Cell A1
=TIME(9.0.0)
Cell B1
=TIME(11.30.0)
Cell C1
=B1-A1+1
Format Cell C1 in Time format xx.xx.xx

Answer 2.30.00
SolMiester (139)
471945 2006-07-19 04:22:00 Hi

Cell A1
=TIME(9.0.0)
Cell B1
=TIME(11.30.0)
Cell C1
=B1-A1+1
Format Cell C1 in Time format xx.xx.xx

Answer 2.30.00

Thanks Solmeister. I have got that far, and when I do monday to friday as a sum of the column it does not appear to work.
jonp (7517)
471946 2006-07-19 04:56:00 Jon, cant see why?, separate row as above for each day, on 6th row add column C1-C5, works fine here.

Get the 1st row working, copy down for Rows Tues-Fri, & the 6th row sum should be easy, ensure you have format of cell correct to understand answer.

PM me your e-mail if u want spreadsheet
SolMiester (139)
471947 2006-07-19 05:06:00 If I have start time as 09:00 and finish time as 19:00 that equals 10 hours (in cell C1). if that is repeated 5 times and then the column added it gives me an answer of 02:00 whereas it should be 50 hours. I have the cell that tallys the totals formatted as hh:mm (the same as all the other cells).

ie cell A1 09:00
cell b1 19:00
cell c1 (b1-a1) 10:00

repeated on rows 2 to 5 .

cell c6 = sum(c1:c5)
jonp (7517)
471948 2006-07-19 05:14:00 seems to have problems going over certain amount of hours.....interesting SolMiester (139)
471949 2006-07-19 05:19:00 Haha....LOL, yes I see now.....will play a bit SolMiester (139)
471950 2006-07-19 05:27:00 Got it...Change C1 to
=HOUR(B1-A1) as general format
SolMiester (139)
471951 2006-07-19 05:34:00 The 2:00 is correct, in its own devious way. 50 modulo 24 is 2 .

Anyway, wouldn't most employers in the new reformed labour market like to calculate pay like that. (Except for the managers, of course).
Graham L (2)
471952 2006-07-19 07:25:00 Yes...of course Graham!!...my bad.....the format was after all HH.MM.SS. It needed a DD day in front.
50 Hour - 48 hours ( 2 days .DD=02 ) = 02 Hours...02.00.00..hehe. Logical i guess if you think about it....hmmmm :horrified
SolMiester (139)
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