Passion, excitement, inspiration or love – whatever you choose to call it, is the key reason we do remarkable things. Take a minute break here, think about the most significant moments in your life.
What is common in all of those moments?
I am sure your answer will be Passion or excitement, love, inspiration.
I want to talk about the latest Batman movie – The Dark Knight, the movie has a production budget of $185 mn [boxofficemojo], but excited millions of people all over the world. There are 130,000 people rating the movie at 10 on 10 (excellent) out of the 194k people who voted at IMDb. The movie grossed $ 390 Mn in the first 3 weeks. Compare this how many companies, institutions, businesses spend millions of dollars without exciting single individual.
Have you excited anyone today? or got excited?
Some of the awesome excel links from the web:
Creating time value of money tables in excel, if you work involves financial calculations like leasing, cash flow analysis then this article on tvm calcs blog can be helpful.
Filter by color, font or active cell’s value in excel 2007 Ron tweaks Excel 2007’s cell based filtering options using VBA to come up with more ways to filter.
Use charts to validate your data tables, Jorge suggests a simple technique to quickly validate data tables, especially if you have lots of data in them. Just fire up a line chart with the data and see if you can find any anomalies, go back and correct your tables if needed. This is very useful if you constantly import data from other sources and work with it.
More on adding target lines your bar charts, Jon at PTS blog provides more alternatives for adding target lines to bar charts to show target vs. actual performance. This can be useful if you build dash boards and need to show more details.
Do you have any excel tips / links, share them with our readers, drop a comment.
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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 !