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converting and calculating time

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    converting and calculating time

    I'm sorry this has been asked before, and I have honestly been trying to
    figure this out for hours by looking at examples and such but I'm lost.

    We have this huge spreadsheet here at my new job with everyone's cell phone usage.

    it's entered as 123,86
    being 123 "minutes" and 86 seconds
    instead of stopping at 60 it goes to 100
    at the bottom we have the sum
    which never ever matches with the phone bills

    can anyone help me with this? it would be much appreciated

    thanks

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    Hi,

    Try this

    =SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",".")/1440

    Then format B1 to a Custom format [mm]:ss
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    thanks for the input
    it says the formula contains an error
    Im probably doing something wrong

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    Your time is in A1 as 123,86

    The formula will substitute the comma for a decimal point and convert the TIME to seconds in B1. If you look at the formula the comma and the decimal point are each enclosed by "" and also separated by a comma.

    You then need to right-click on B1 and Format > Number > Custom to [mm]:ss

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