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    Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Hi,

    I have an issue where I'm trying to add up the time difference for negative and positive values formatted as Text.

    I've attached my sheet and the positive time values return the accurate time difference. However, when a negative value is added there's no output.

    I've also noticed that if I add the positive values together individually I don't get any issues with a total, whereas if I use Autosum for the same section then I get nothing returned (shown in the nov calcs tab).

    appreciate any advice on making this work.

    thanks

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Thanks for that, that's resolved my problem with autosum.

    Unfortunately, it doesn't cope with the negative values

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Hi nixxrite

    Why don,t you bring your time in to sheet Nov Calcs from November 12 as "Real numbers" instead of text!

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin UK View Post
    Hi nixxrite

    Why don,t you bring your time in to sheet Nov Calcs from November 12 as "Real numbers" instead of text!
    I'm still having trouble with the negative numbers if I pull them in as real.

    I may not have explained myself well or have some formatting issues but please bear with me as I'm relatively new to Excel.

    What I'm expecting to see in L3 is 00:06 and in L4 -00:05 as attached.

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    I was wondering if there was a better way of doing this rather than converting to text but either way I've gone I've had issues with the negative number.

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Please post a small sample sheet. pictures are nice but ueless

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe Le Mokko View Post
    Please post a small sample sheet. pictures are nice but ueless
    I did attach the sample sheet to the original post but here's the one I've been playing with since.
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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    The reason is that we can't type or show the Real Time in negative.

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Quote Originally Posted by :) Sixthsense :) View Post
    The reason is that we can't type or show the Real Time in negative.
    That's probably why I did the text conversion. I couldn't remember the reasoning behind it.

    My brief is that I have a start time of 08:30 some times a person is in beforehand (negative value) and sometimes they're in later (Positive Value). I'm trying to calculate the amount of time lost/gained per person hence the requirement to calculate the daily output as a total unit of time over a period.

    I guess I could do it manually or maybe calculate the negative fields seperate to the positive and do the difference from there somehow

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Hi nixxrite

    Excel doesn't like negative times.

    If i could upload the file i show you how far I got!

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Hi

    I can not upload the file!

    In cell B2 on the Nov Calcs:
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    And copy across and down. Then in I2:
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    Copy down.

    Remember excel doesn't like negative times!

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Thanks Kevin!

    That's exactly what I was looking for

    I had gone down the road of separating negative and positive values to calculate the outcome later but this is much better.

    Thanks again.

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Hi nixxrite

    Thanks for the feed back. apologies about the file, I just can't upload it!

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Hi,

    I am facing a similar problem but am not being able to figure it out from the solution provided here.

    I am attaching a sample file. An error is being shown in cell E23 because of the negative times.

    Please help me with this.

    Thank you.
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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Hey arnavkapadia,

    I've had to dig this one out of my archive, I'd stopped using it a while ago. I can't remember exactly where I was going wrong but I believe it may have been something to do with converting to text.

    Hope you don't mind but I re-created your sample on sheet 2 and set it up. It should work how you need it to and you can see how the formula works.Sample edited.xlsx

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    Re: Adding Positive and negative time values formatted as text

    Thank you so much. That was exactly what I was looking for.

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