Ok Excel heads… I’m trying to add up columns F and H into column I. I used a sum formula and it’s not working. What am I doing wrong? Is it not working cause it’s a time and not a whole number?

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Show your formula so we can advise on what's wrong. The amounts in column I appear to be the correct expected value so not sure where you may be going wrong.

Because you say you're using a SUM formula, why wouldn't you take the value in column H less the value in column F?

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Yeah, to get total time elapsed, I’d subtract column H from F. The difference should be 5 as displayed in column I… you can do the same thing for column G and E. But I would definitely make sure that all columns are time formatted… or number formatted if you just want the number

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Add two helper columns and Convert time in both columns (H&F) to minutes and then add Both Helper columns. Then convert Minutes into 24 Hour format

Only numbers can do math, check the columns using =ISNUMBER(F1) and verify they are numbers. If not, use =NUMBERVALUE(F1) to get it to a number.

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I think you meant to do H - F.

Make sure all columns you’re using are the same format.

SUM(date_time...) yields a time_value as DAYS
(stop-start) does the same. Just FORMAT as hours and minutes without "pm", to make sense of it.
24*SUM(date_time) yields hours

you can use =(F15-H15)*24-9

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