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Excel 2007: How to display mm:ss format not as a DateTime (e.g. 73:07)?

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I need to create and Excel table that computes daily training times. each row has the following fields: Date, Distance, Time and Minutes/Km.
My main problem is that I want to display the Time in format of mm:ss. For example: 24 min and 3 sec should be 24:03, but "Excel" turns it to 00:03:00 (3 min after midnight). I've tried setting up "special formatting" but still "Excel insists" on formatting the hours. More over, training may exceed 60 minutes and I still want it only as mm:ss
My second question is after I'm done with the formatting issue, what is the simple way to compute Time/Distance?

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Meron Avatar asked Jun 19 '12 07:06

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enter the values as 0:mm:ss and format as [m]:ss

as this is now in the mins & seconds, simple arithmetic will allow you to calculate your statistics

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SeanC Avatar answered Nov 05 '22 04:11

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