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I am working on a spreadsheet that shows durations in Column C2 as hh:mm:ss. I need to transfer this to Column N2 in mm:ss. Column N2 is part of a CONCATENATE in Column E2. When I put time in Column N2 it changes into decimal on the CONCATENATE in Column E2. How can I keep it in time format in the CONCATENATE with or without the colons?

Please consider

    A                 B
1  10:15:03           Hi it's 0.427453703703704

Cell A1 has the value as shown and is formatted as Time B1 has the following

=CONCATENATE("Hi it's ", A1)

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    What did you already try?
    – Hennes
    Mar 1, 2016 at 11:18
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    You might just need to set the format of the second cell to a date time format, but with concatenate involved it could be more complicated. You need better examples for this to be answerable.
    – Tyson
    Mar 1, 2016 at 11:20
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    Possible duplicate of How to concatenate a date in MS-excel and receive a date (not a number)
    – Dave
    Mar 1, 2016 at 11:52
  • I made a big change to your post, you can roll it back if you don't like it
    – Dave
    Mar 1, 2016 at 12:25
  • Look at the duplicate question identified by Dave above. That is likely to be your answer. If not update your question with specific changes
    – Prasanna
    Mar 2, 2016 at 3:22

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this should do it:

=CONCATENATE("Hi it's ", TEXT(A1,"HH:MM:ss"))

Use the TEXT function to change the time to human readable, rather than Excels decimal notation.

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Consider:

=CONCATENATE("Hi its ",TEXT(A1,"hh:mm:ss"))

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