Getting Difference between two cells

OK I have two cells (different than last posting) that have times listed in there as shown below.

:20:30
and
:30:40

I want to get the difference between these two cells to show in a third area so I can see lets say -:10:10 like D2-D1. I try to do this now but get the #Value! Error. And no Formatting cells helps. How would I go about this?

TIA.
Jimmy

Jimmydageek wrote:
> OK I have two cells (different than last posting) that have times listed
> in there as shown below.
>
> :20:30
> and
> :30:40
>
> I want to get the difference between these two cells to show in a third
> area so I can see lets say -:10:10 like D2-D1. I try to do this now
> but get the #Value! Error. And no Formatting cells helps. How would I
> go about this?
>
> TIA.
> Jimmy
>
>
format those cells as time 00:00:00 and then subtract them
0:30:40-0:20:30=0:10:10 ...... the o is 12 AM as this is a 24 hour format

Problem is that the report that I generate does not enter a value for the Hour if there is no Hour. For example it literally prints :20:10 and not a "0" in the Hour spot. This creates some havoc on the Formatting tool. Any ideas?

The values are being treated as text, so try this:

Highlight the column containing these entries, choose Data |
Text-to-columns then <finish>

Hope this helps.

Pete