How do i change the result of a formula to normal text or values

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kelnasawa Posts 20 Registration date Thursday January 23, 2014 Status Member Last seen October 10, 2014 - Feb 18, 2014 at 07:24 AM
kelnasawa Posts 20 Registration date Thursday January 23, 2014 Status Member Last seen October 10, 2014 - Feb 26, 2014 at 05:07 AM
Hello ,
i have a formula which calculates my working hours for each day " =C9+(B9>C9)-B9 " ... when i try to sum all the hours resulted from that formula it gives me some other numbers ...
can anyone please help ? is there a way to change the result of that formula into text so i can sum it or is there a way to calculate it directly ?

thank you in advance ,
Regards

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in picture number 1 we calculate the time and format it in h:mm ... then in pic number 2 we convert the hours into minutes then in pic number 3 we convert it back into hours with formatting cells with numbers and 0 decimals ...
then in pic number 4 u just select the cells u want to sum and u can see the answer down in the bottom ... or u can simply add the =sum formula
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TrowaD Posts 2921 Registration date Sunday September 12, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen December 27, 2022 555
Feb 25, 2014 at 10:29 AM
A lot of steps for the same result.
Following your routine on your original values, the answer is still 40.75.

8:00	480	8
8:00 480 8
8:00 480 8
7:55 475 7,916666667
8:50 530 8,833333333

40,75

Is your query solved now?
kelnasawa Posts 20 Registration date Thursday January 23, 2014 Status Member Last seen October 10, 2014
Feb 26, 2014 at 05:07 AM
yea
TrowaD Posts 2921 Registration date Sunday September 12, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen December 27, 2022 555
Feb 18, 2014 at 11:14 AM
Hi Kelnasawa,

I think you are having a formatting issue.

Normally when you add hours, 23 is the max, since 24 is a day.
Goto cell properties and change format to [h]:mm or [h] (instead of h:mm or h).

Best regards,
Trowa
kelnasawa Posts 20 Registration date Thursday January 23, 2014 Status Member Last seen October 10, 2014
Feb 19, 2014 at 02:15 AM
Hello ,
im sorry maybe i explained wrong ...
https://www63.zippyshare.com/v/13824067/file.html
this is the image of what is actually happening as u can see im tryin to sum the cells D9 to D13 but the answer is 16 which is wrong
the the formula in D9 is =C9+(B9>C9)-B9

thank you
TrowaD Posts 2921 Registration date Sunday September 12, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen December 27, 2022 555
Feb 20, 2014 at 10:55 AM
The answer 16 is wrong.
What should the answer be?, 40 right?
yea exactly 40.05 ...
TrowaD Posts 2921 Registration date Sunday September 12, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen December 27, 2022 555
Feb 24, 2014 at 10:21 AM
That's weird: 8:00 + 8:00 + 8:00 + 7:55 + 8:50 = 40:45

But you didn't use ":" but "." as a separator. That would mean you are not looking for hours and minutes but hours and a decimal value of minutes.

45 minutes of 60 = 0.75 which would result in 40.75

What am I missing here, how do you get 40.05?