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Inserting and deleting large amounts of data across many tabs

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    Inserting and deleting large amounts of data across many tabs

    My boss handed me a 2000 tab report of data that looks like this:
    Wednesday 10/5/2011
    12:10 AM Armed 1352 -CA cityname, MBS 2
    12:29 AM Disarmed 1352 -CA cityname, MBS 2
    2:39 AM Disarmed 1352 -CA cityname, MBS 2
    3:40 AM Armed 1352 -CA cityname, MBS 2

    All in one cell, the next cell down has a different date. He has given me 1 day to format the data to say:
    time in: 12:10 AM
    Time out: 12:29 AM
    and to subtract time out from time in.

    Any suggestions? I need a way to do this quickly.
    I have found a time to get rid of all the "Armed 1352 -CA cityname, MBS 2" but not to insert the other information I know the formula to do the math...

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    Re: Inserting and deleting large amounts of data across many tabs

    Can you use the "text to columns command"?

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    Re: Inserting and deleting large amounts of data across many tabs

    I tried and haven't found a way to keep the AM or PM with the data the numbers aren't in time format and when I format them to time they loose the AM or PM so 12AM becomes 12PM...
    I've been at this since 4am I've been using =TEXT(B251-B250,"h:mm:ss") b251-B250 is whatever cells im using at the time. I have no idea how to get this 40 times on 2000 tabs quickly... all the pages aren't spaced the same either.

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    Re: Inserting and deleting large amounts of data across many tabs

    please see below for example
    Last edited by HelenS; 11-14-2011 at 04:45 PM.

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    Re: Inserting and deleting large amounts of data across many tabs

    Data I'm given:
    Sunday 10/2/2011
    7:26 PM Disarmed 1352 -CA TRUMPET, MBS 2
    7:49 PM Armed 1352 -CA TRUMPET, MBS 2
    Monday 10/3/2011
    8:27 PM Disarmed 1352 -CA TRUMPET, MBS 2
    9:08 PM Armed 1352 -CA TRUMPET, MBS 2

    Final product:
    Sunday 10/2/2011 Time at location:

    Time in: 7:26 PM 0:23:00
    Time Out: 7:49 PM


    Monday 10/3/2011
    Time in: 8:27 PM 0:41:00
    Time Out: 9:08 PM


    I have 1 spread sheet with 31 entries per tab that is 1681 tabs long at this point all of it looks like the 1st portion titled" data I'm given" I need to make it look like the last.

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    Re: Inserting and deleting large amounts of data across many tabs

    The data in data I'm given is all in one cell. Each date is one cell.

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