I have text strings in a column. I need to convert the numbers to a decimal, e.g. 1 hr 51 min 54 sec would equal 1.865. However some cells will not have anything in the hour (or theoretically minutes or seconds) so columns will look like this
1 hr 51 min 54 sec
17 min 12 sec
etc.
I used isnumber with search which worked when there was an hour a minute and a second number, but gave a value error for the second row here. Any ideas?
Hi, welcome to the forum
Actually, to excel, 1 hr 51 minutes 54 sec would be 0.077708 not 1.865
What you need to understand about dates and times in excel is…
a date is just a number representing the number of days passed since 1/1/900...and then formatted in a way that we recognize as a date. So, for instance, today (Wed 31 Jul 2019) is actually 43677
Time is actually a decimal part of 1 (day), so 06:00 AM is 0.25, 12 noon is 0.5 and 18:00 (or 6 PM) is 0.75
Based on your sample...
1 hr 51 min 54 sec 17 min 12 sec
B3=IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("hr",A3,1)),TIME(LEFT(A3,2),MID(A3,FIND("min",A3,1)-3,3),MID(A3,FIND("sec",A3,1)-4,3)),TIME(0,MID(A3,FIND("min",A3,1)-3,3),MID(A3,FIND("sec",A3,1)-4,3)))
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Re: Calculations on numbers in text string
Thank you, Fdibbins!
I multiplied your formula by 24 to get back to the answer I needed and it works like a charm!. I appreciate the help!
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