I know that there are questions around that are much the same, like Sum the number of hours in Excel, which asks you to format [h]:mm, which I do and it still does not work.
Also not so far is How do ‘Sum’ time in decimals for result in hours and minutes in Excel?.
I have an export of a timesheet:
begin – end – break – working time ([h]:mm)
and I want to see the sum of the time in the status bar if I mark some of the “working time” cells, like the two 00:45 that should show 01:30 as the sum.
Yet, I can only see the number of cells in the status bar:
What is more, even if I sum the two cells up in a SUM formula, it returns 00:00:
If I write down the values in new cells, the formatting works, they are also aligned to the right, as they should:
Thus, the other numbers are understood as text even if I format them as [h]:mm, you see this from their alignment to the left.
How do I format the [h]:mm (hh:mm) cells so that I see the sum in the status bar, and how can I sum them up in a formula?
