I'm trying to calculate the time between two activities.

The format in the cell is 01 02:52:12 representing day, hour, minute, second.

Is there a formating or easy step I can do so I can make the calculations?

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Is the "01 02:52:12" a date? Doesn't seem like it, but if it is, a simple a - b should be enough. Ofc, you'd need to format the output cell to hh:mm:ss (or whatever output way you want).

If they aren't dates, you need to transform it. The easy way is to break down the "01 02:52:12" in "01" and "02:52:12", with the second being further broken down in "02"*3600 + "52"*60 + "12". This way, you can sum with the "01"*24*3600, subtract with the other cell, and have the time difference in seconds (you can further change it to minutes/hours/days/moon rotation...)

Let me know if you need help with the formulas, but using =MID() and =FIND() should be enough

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Can’t you switch to date time format then just do a-b?

Yeah but you could tweak it to be start of the year for day 1, then back into the date if you needed to

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