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 ------------------------------------ GR Business Process Solutions Ray Blake Head of Software Design ray@xxxxxxxxx Braedon Newell Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP3 9PD tel: 01442 396518 fax: 01442 389353 mobile: 07834 226601 ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Sent: 27 November 2004 11:49 To: Mso@Freelists. Org Subject: [mso] Excel 2003 I am subtracting the result of NOW() from a future Date+Time and I would like to show the result in hours and minutes. The Time format does not answer, because it returns a 24hr clock format. Do I need a complex formula (multiply by 24 and take the integer part for the hours, multiply the decimal part by 60 for minutes and use TEXT() to format as hhh:mm) to do this or is there a custom format which I have missed? Andrew Kendon (IT Trainer) ---------------------------------- Skills Training UK Ltd Cherry Hinton Hall Learning Centre Cherry Hinton Road CAMBRIDGE CB1 8DW ---------------------------------- Tel.: 01223 458257 Mobile: 07815 301113 ---------------------------------- ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************