In the 12th session of Chandoo.org podcast, lets get productive fast.
Announcement: Short format podcasts sessions once a month
Based on your feedback, I am adding short format sessions (20 mins). These short format sessions will run once a month (along with longer sessions that we publish almost every week) so that you have something light & easy to chew between heavy doses of Excel awesomeness.
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What is in this session?
Keyboard shortcuts are the low hanging fruits you must pluck in your journey to of Excel awesomeland. Just by learning a few handful shortcuts, you can save tons of time, work faster and create lasting impact. Not just that, learning something new (like shortcuts) can make you smart & sexy (as they as in Big Bang Theory, Smart is the new Sexy).
In this podcast, you will learn,
- Announcement about the short format podcast sessions
- 20 minute rule
- Top 10 keyboard shortcuts (according to me)
- ALT Key
- CTRL + 1
- ALT + ESV (or Menu Key + V)
- Function key shortcuts (F2, F3 & F4)
- & More
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Links & Resources mentioned in this session:
20 minute rule
The 20 minute rule from time.com
Important Keyboard Shortcuts
- 10 Keyboard shortcuts I can’t live without
- 5 Shortcuts to write better formulas
- Comprehensive List of Excel Keyboard Shortcuts
- Right click from keyboard, not mouse
- TEST: How fast can you use keyboard in Excel?
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What are your favorite Excel keyboard shortcuts?
Go ahead and tell us in comments. I am hoping to learn a few more useful ones.
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13 Responses to “Convert fractional Excel time to hours & minutes [Quick tip]”
Hi Purna..
Again a great tip.. Its a great way to convert Fractional Time..
By the way.. Excel has two great and rarely used formula..
=DOLLARFR(7.8,60) and =DOLLARDE(7.48,60)
basically US Account person uses those to convert some currency denomination.. and we can use it to convert Year(i.e 3.11 Year = 3 year 11 month) and Week(6.5 week = 6 week 5 days), in the same manner...
This doesn't work for me. When applying the custom format of [h]:mm to 7.8 I get 187:12
Any ideas why?
@Jason
7.8 in Excel talk means 7.8 days
=7.8*24
=187.2 Hrs
=187 Hrs 12 Mins
If you follow Chandoo's instructions you will see that he divides the 7.8 by 24 to get it to a fraction of a day
Simple, 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!
Hi, sorry to point this out but Column C Header is misspelt 'Hours Palyed'
good one
So how do I go the other way and get hours and minutes to fractional time?
If you have 7.5 in cell A1,
- Use int(A1) to get the hours.
- Use mod(A1,1)*60 to get minutes.
If you have 7:30 (formatted as time) in A1
- Use hours(a1) to get hours
- Use minutes(a1) to get minutes.
I had the same issue. You can solve it by changing the format as described above:
Right click cell > Format Cells > (In Number tab) > Custom > Then enter the code [h]:mm
([hh]:mm and [hhh]:mm are nice too if you want to show leading zeros)
Thanks guys, these are the tips I'm looking for.
...dividing the number of minutes elapsed by the percent change is my task - "int" is the key this time
It doesnt work for greater than 24 hours
It returns 1:30 for 25.5 hours. It should have returned 25:30
Ideally I would right function as
=QUOTIENT(A1,1)&":"&MOD(A1,1)*60
Sorry, replied to wrong comment....
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I had the same issue. You can solve it by changing the format as described above:
Right click cell > Format Cells > (In Number tab) > Custom > Then enter the code [h]:mm
([hh]:mm and [hhh]:mm are nice too if you want to show leading zeros)
Clever use of MOD here to extract the decimal part of a number. Divide a number containing a decimal by 1 and return the remainder. Humm. Very clever.
Thanks very much, extremely useful !