I am creating a weekly time card for our office.  I have columns for start 
and stop times and have successfully found the formula to get each time 
segment to add up in the third column.  When I try to make that 3rd column 
add up the total hours for the week I can't get a sensible result.
Also, is there a simple way to have my time results automatically subtract 
1/2 hour (for lunch) or do I need to split the day into morning and afternoon 
as I have so far?
Any help will be appreciated.

JR Crawdad wrote:
> I am creating a weekly time card for our office.  I have columns for start 
> and stop times and have successfully found the formula to get each time 
> segment to add up in the third column.  When I try to make that 3rd column 
> add up the total hours for the week I can't get a sensible result.
> Also, is there a simple way to have my time results automatically subtract 
> 1/2 hour (for lunch) or do I need to split the day into morning and afternoon 
> as I have so far?
> Any help will be appreciated.


Some help here:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/overtime.htm

See Chip Pearson's site for Timesheet calculations, including OT and lunch
breaks.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/overtime.htm

And for more help doing Time calcualtions see this site of Chip's

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetime.htm#AddingTimes


Gord Dibben  MS Excel MVP


On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:37:01 -0800, JR Crawdad <JR
Crawdad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I am creating a weekly time card for our office.  I have columns for start 
>and stop times and have successfully found the formula to get each time 
>segment to add up in the third column.  When I try to make that 3rd column 
>add up the total hours for the week I can't get a sensible result.
>Also, is there a simple way to have my time results automatically subtract 
>1/2 hour (for lunch) or do I need to split the day into morning and afternoon 
>as I have so far?
>Any help will be appreciated.

The best way to get help is to tell us how your data is laid out, and what 
formulas you are using, what results you are getting, and what you want 
instead. Without that, we're just guessing.

Assuming you have start time in column A, and stop time in column B, the 
your work time would be:
=b1-a1
formatted as a time.
If you want to subtract 1/2 hour for lunch, do it here, as in:
=b1-a1-time(0,30,0)

To get your weekly total, presumably you're summing times, like:
=sum(c1:c7)

The format you want for this is likely: [hh]:mm
The square brackets stop Excel from rolling over after 24 hours.

Regards,
Fred

"JR Crawdad" <JR Crawdad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:43210447-71BB-4C21-97A1-2106DFF07727@microsoft.com...
>I am creating a weekly time card for our office.  I have columns for start
> and stop times and have successfully found the formula to get each time
> segment to add up in the third column.  When I try to make that 3rd column
> add up the total hours for the week I can't get a sensible result.
> Also, is there a simple way to have my time results automatically subtract
> 1/2 hour (for lunch) or do I need to split the day into morning and 
> afternoon
> as I have so far?
> Any help will be appreciated.