Question

When I run a report and export to Excel, the hours and minutes are exported as a general text format.

So for example:

• 13 hours and 22 minutes is exported as 13.22

• 0 hours and 33 minutes is exported as 0.33

and so on.

The problem is, when I try to convert the data to the format [h]:mm which I need for data manipulation, they aren’t converted correctly.

13.22 is converted to 317:16 and in the formula bar displays 13/01/1900 05:16:48

How would I convert 13.22 to 13:22 in the format [h]:mm so I’m able to manipulate the data?

Answer 1

If you import data as 13.22 Excel interprets that as 13.22 days – changing format won’t change that. If you can’t change the import so that you import as 13:22 then you can try using a formula to convert, e.g. with 13.22 in A1 use this formula in B1

=TEXT(A1*100,"00\:00")+0

format B1 as [h]:mm