How to calculate minutes in Excel
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Excel offers a very interesting way to calculate minutes. We can cater to this problem statement by using the “=MINUTE()” formula. We can perform the below mentioned way to calculate difference between two dates and times in excel:
We’ll learn about this methodology step by step.
To do this yourself, please follow the steps described below;
Step 1 – Excel workbook with a time
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– Open the desired Excel workbook which contains time in a cell
Step 2 – Minute formula applied
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– Now type the formula “=MINUTE(“ and give the reference of the cell where the time is present, and hit Enter.
Step 3 – Minutes calculated
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– We can see that the minutes have been extracted from the cell.