Converting hh:mm:dd to number of minutes in regular number format

Hello,

How do you convert a certain amount of time into minutes in a regular number format?

For example, I would like to convert "02:53:00" into "173".

Thanks,
David

EDIT: title should read "hh:mm:ss"

Custom format the time cell as [m] and you'll get total minutes......or with a formula in another cell try

=A1*1440

where A1 contains your time value - format as general

=A1*1440 and format as Number