Convert fractional Excel time to hours & minutes [Quick tip]

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Time for another quick Excel tip.

Convert fraction to hours & minutes in Excel - Tip

Lets say the park near your house rents tennis courts by hour. And they charge $10 per hour. At the end of an intense tennis playing week, Linda, the tennis court manager called you up and said you need to pay $78 as rent for that week.

How many hours did you play?

Of course 78/10 = 7.8 hours.

But we all know that 7.8 hours makes no sense.

We also know that 7.8 hours is really 7 hours 48 minutes.

So how to convert 7.8 hrs to 7:48 ?

That is our quick tip for the day.

Custom cell formatting to show hours & minutes in Excel from fractional timeSimple, assuming the fractional time is in cell A1,

Use below steps to convert it to hours & minutes:

  1. In the target cell, write =A1/24
  2. Select the target cell and press CTRL+1 to format it (you can also right click and select format cells)
  3. Select Custom from “Number” tab and enter the code [h]:mm
  4. Done!

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Thats all for now. Stay awesome until next time.

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