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Skip writing 0 hours?

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    Skip writing 0 hours?

    Hello,
    I am doing lists of songs: title, composer, etc and duration.
    I wonder if it possible with Excel 2007 to enter the duration in minutes and seconds (mm:ss),
    without always having to type first 00: for hh:?

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    Re: Skip writing 0 hours?

    xl wont know what ':34' is. (is it time, is it a budding list, a delimiter, etc)
    but it does know time is: hh:nn

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    Re: Skip writing 0 hours?

    Thank you ranman256 for your answer.
    I just wondered if there is a way to just write mm:ss instead of 00:mm:ss

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    Re: Skip writing 0 hours?

    Let Excel take the strain ...
    see attached workbook
    - easier to use different columns for minutes (col B) and seconds (col C)
    - column D is formatted as TIME

    Convert to time with formula in D2 copy down:
    =1+(B2/((24*60))+(C2/(24*60*60)))

    And to spot silly errors - in E2 copy down:
    =IF(C2<60,"","How many seconds?")
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    Re: Skip writing 0 hours?

    Thank you kev_, this is a cool formula

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    Re: Skip writing 0 hours?

    You are welcome. Thanks for reps

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