Remove AM/PM from "time" cell

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user7500527 picture user7500527 · Mar 1, 2017 · Viewed 31k times · Source

I am calculating all the hours/minutes/seconds of all calls made on our PABX system. DASHBOARD

The cell has to be "time" format to display correctly. BUT, this adds an AM/PM at the end of the result as if it was the time. Whereas I just want it to display as HH:MM:SS

How do I remove the AM/PM?

Answer

Gowtham Shiva picture Gowtham Shiva · May 7, 2017

Since you are already calculating time differences, use the TEXT function to format the time in hh:mm:ss format rather than changing the format for the cells.

=TEXT(A1,"hh:mm:ss")

In your case your calculation formula should be,

=TEXT(your_calc_formula,"hh:mm:ss")

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