Transform a cell with avalue of mintues to another cell to show hours:minutes

Question

I would like to use be able to fill out one cell in plain mintues(for example 75 min) which I want to be shown in another cell as hours:minutes( 1hrs:15min).

Answer 1

HI Micke,
What you use in column D depends on what you actually want or need the result to be—a duration value, including units (h and m), a number representing the number of hours and fraction of hour with the unit label in the next column, or a text value showing the number of hours and the number of 'extra; minutes including unit labels.
The value in column B is a number, which, according to your original question, you want to display in column D as a duration in hours and minutes.
The English language function to do that is DURATION. Here's the syntax for regions where the decimal separator is a period.
DURATION(weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds)
In my localization, the formula in D would be =DURATION(,,,B)
In your localization DURATION would be replaced by the Swedish name for this function, and the three commas would be replaced by semi colons:
=FUNCTIONNAME(;;;B)
Format the cell in column D as DURATION with hours and minutes as the units to include in the display.
Although that will convert the number in B to a duration in D, the labels "Min" and "Hrs" in the cells to the right of theseclls in the image of your table implies that what should be in both of these cells should be a number value representing the number of minutes (B) and the number of hours, including (decimal) fractional hours (D) with the unit shown by the label in the adjacent column.
=B/60
Formatted to show two places after the dcimal will show the number representing hours and hundredths of hours equivalent to the number of minutes shown in column B.
If you are using this value in further calculations, this may be the best type of value to place in this cell.
If the cell is for display only, you can build a text string displaying the number of hours and minutes (with whatever labels you wish to put in for Hrs and Min using QUOTIENT and MOD
=QUOTIENT(B,60)&" Hrs "&MOD(B,60)&" Min"
This is a text value, and can't be used in further calculations. (but the calculations could probably be revised to use the value in B.
Regards,
Barry