How to military time in excel

Are you having trouble trying to keep track of time in Excel? Not sure how to understand military time? You're not alone. Many people are used to the convention of 12-hour clocks and struggle to understand the 24-hour clock commonly known as military time. Fortunately, we will go over how to master this concept and make it easy for you to use in Microsoft Excel.

First, let's start by understanding the conventions behind military time. Military time uses the same numbers but different gestures than 12-hour clocks do. The hours are numbered from 00 (midnight) up until 23 (one minute to midnight). The minutes are always denoted with two digits starting at 00 up until 59 for the same amount of minutes. In other words, 0100 hours is 1 AM, 1400 hours is 2 PM, and 2345 hours is 11:45 PM.

Now that you have the basics down, let's discuss how we can apply this knowledge into Microsoft Excel! To utilize military time in Excel, you need to start off by formatting a cell as 'Time'. To do this you will need to go into 'Format Cells' under 'Format' in the ribbon tool bar and then select 'Time' from the choices given. If this format is already in place, simply click on 'Format Cells' and select your desired type of showing Military Time or 24-Hour Clock available under Time tab section.

After doing so, enter any hour followed by a colon and two digits representing minutes (Excel automatically assumes 00 for both minutes and seconds if left blank) into a cell formatted as 'Time' such as 0100 or 1300 for 1 AM or 1 PM respectively. Then press enter and you should now see it properly formated according to Military Time! Additionally, be sure to adjust column widths accordingly as necessary since some times may slightly vary due to leading zeros occurring around midnight hour periods of 00:00 - 02:59; otherwise some zeros may appeared cut off due to limited column width being set within cells itself containing activated time values within them. Joining other values such as day or year might require special formatting manipulation which can be briefly searched online depending on your own preferences accordingly otherwise examples can also be explored via numerous spreadsheet templates shared openly amongst many social collaborative tools today too (such as Google Spreadsheets).