Concatenate time

[ptrifile]

I have 2 cells that contain times. one has, for example, 1:00 pm and one has 8:00 pm. I am trying to concatenate them into one cell looking like this 1:00 pm - 8:00pm. I cannot seem to get this to give the desired results. Any help is appreciated.

 

[SkipVought]

hi,

Assuming that your two cells are A1 & B1...
[tt]
=TEXT(A1,"[highlight #8AE234]hh:mm am/pm[/highlight][highlight #8AE234][/highlight]")&" - "&TEXT(B1,"hh:mm am/pm")
[/tt]

The reason for converting Time Values to TEXT is because time is a fractional number.
1:00 PM is 13/24 = 0.541666666666667. That is the actual value in your cell. What you see displayed is a [highlight #8AE234]Number Format[/highlight] for Time in your cell. If you were to change the Number Format to GENERAL, you would see tha actual value. Changing a Number Format does nothing to the actual value in the cell. It just changes what you see displayed in the cell.

Bottom line, you need the NUMBER displayed as a TEXT string in TIME FORMAT in order to be able concatenate with other TEXT values.

Skip,
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[Andrzejek]

Unless your "2 cells that contain times" actually contain text that you interpret as time. In which case your formula would be simply:[tt]
=A1&" - "&B1 [/tt]


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[SkipVought]

I cannot seem to get this to give the desired results.

Well it would have helped had the OP stated...
[ul]
[li]the formula the OP had used and[/li]
[li]the results the OP had observed.[/li]
[/ul]

Skip,
[sub]
Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
for a NUance![/sub]
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