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    Comparing Time Values when Formatted as Text (10:00.00 vs 9:00.00)

    Hello,

    I am having issues with comparing time values (stored as text) when the numbers being compared are less than 10 and greater than 10. For example, 10 minutes (10:00.00) is registering as less time than 9 minutes (9:00.00). Is there an easy way around this so the comparison is correct. I've got a large list of times, so I have to keep it stored as text to ensure the data remains unaltered by excel and I also concatenate these times in formulas elsewhere in my workbook so I can't do any custom formating.


    A1: 10:10.25
    B1: 9:59.02

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    It works properly when formatted as General or Custom (m:ss.01), but the problem is when I import the data through my macro, columns A and B do not just contain times (other data includes stuff like 24.25, 11.24cm, "-").

    Thanks in advance for any help!

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    Re: Comparing Time Values when Formatted as Text (10:00.00 vs 9:00.00)

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    Re: Comparing Time Values when Formatted as Text (10:00.00 vs 9:00.00)

    Hi rjj920,

    I think ChemistB is correct. You need to slap a zero on the left of those single digit minutes. Then they would alpha sort correctly. You are trying to do a "<" (less than) using alpha characters. This is a very old problem for Excel.
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    Re: Comparing Time Values when Formatted as Text (10:00.00 vs 9:00.00)

    Thank you guys for the feedback. I may have over-simplified my issue since the formula that I am using is very long and the proposed solution didn't quite work for my application. Would you mind taking a look and see if you can figure out what I am doing wrong. I found another thread which suggested subtracting the two values and testing for whether or not it is greater than 0. This seems to be the best solution for me, but it is giving me other problems (getting value errors).
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    Re: Comparing Time Values when Formatted as Text (10:00.00 vs 9:00.00)

    You might add some helper columns on the DCMaster sheet.
    Borrowing from ChemistB's suggestion try pasting the following into cell P6 then copy over to S6 and then down to S20:
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    The formula on Sheet3 could then reference Columns P:S as opposed to I:L
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