You’ll have to rename the column back to Minutes, but you’ll have that formula now applied to every row of your spreadsheet for that column. One hour is equal to 3.6 × 10 3 to unit of time second.Select the entire column (column C in my example) by selecting the column header.Copy (Ctrl+C) the result in the first cell with the formula (C3 in my example).To apply this formula to the entire column: When you release the mouse, all those cells you dragged this formula over will be converted to minutes and seconds.
#Time converter minutes to hours how to#
(See below for how to apply it to ALL cells in the column.)
Put the cursor in the first cell in the new column that pairs with a cell in the hh:mm column.(To format the column, select the column header, right-click on it, select Format Cells, select Number on the Number tab, then change the Decimal Places value to 0. Click OK.) Set the format for the cells in this new column to Number with no decimal places - this formatting is critical for the formula to work.Insert a new column (C) and called it Minutes.(To format the column, select the column header, right-click on it, select Format Cells, select Custom on the Number tab, then select h:mm from the list of types. For example, 1:00 PM would be 13:00 in 24-hour time. Set the format for this column to Custom > h:mm. For PM hours, add 12 to the number to convert it to 24-hour time.12-hour clock: A 12-hour clock uses the numbers 1-12. Most people read time using either a 12-hour clock or a 24-hour clock. (Yes, those non-stop flights to/from Sydney to Dallas Fort Worth are killers!) An hour is most commonly defined as a period of time equal to 60 minutes, where a minute is equal to 60 seconds, and a second has a rigorous scientific definition. Alternatively, if the decimal time is in minutes, enter the number of minutes, for example 125, to see it converted to hours and minutes: 2 hours and 5 minutes in this example. Enter elapsed times in hours and minutes (using the format hh:mm) in Column B. For example, enter 7.25 in decimal and the output will be 7 hours and 15 minutes.This is where I got caught - I didn’t have the correct formatting applied to the cells. To convert hours and minutes to minutes, you have to multiply the hh:mm value by 1440 (which is 24 multiplied by 60 ), AND make sure you set the formatting correctly for the both the hh:mm cells and the resulting minute cells.
#Time converter minutes to hours trial#
But I had to do quite a bit of trial and error and Googling to get it to work. Converting hours and minutes (hh:mm) to minutes in an Excel spreadsheet is actually quite simple, once you know what to do.