Many thanks Ray and Clem! Clem's reply was just what I needed - I had a feeling that somewhere there must be a simple answer like this! Andrew K --- Clem Ras wrote: > Andrew, > I believe the custom format > > [h]:mm (Note the brackets around the h) > > will yield the format that you're looking for. > > Clem > > --- Ray Blake wrote: > > > Andrew, > > > > I'm not aware of an easy way to do this, but here's a hard way that > > works! > > > > 1. Future date and time in A1 > > 2. =NOW() in B1 > > 3. =A1-B1 in B2 > > > > Cell containing hours reads: =ROUNDDOWN(B2*24,0) Cell containing > > minutes reads: > > =ROUNDDOWN(MOD(B2*24*60,60),0) > > > > Fun, fun, fun. > > > > Ray > > ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************