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Excel Time problem

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Apr 19, 2000
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I have a timesheet worksheet that has a time in column and time out column and hours worked column

The time in column and the time out column has the cells formatted as time HH:MM AM/PM
The hours column has the cells formatted as number (2 decimal places).
I need to auto calculate the difference between the time in and time out and return it in numeric format (example if a time in cell is 8:00 AM and a time out cell is 9:30 AM an hours cell produces 1.5)
THE PROBLEM-- If a user enters Anything other than the exact time in or time out,the cells return a value of January 1,1900 12:00 AM. How do I keep the user from entering anything other than HH:MM AM/PM?
(so the user can't enter in the time in and time out cells text where a number should be or a number that isn't time like 82:70 PM)
 
Data>Validation>Time

choose start and end time et voila

Rgds, Geoff
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