Excel - Convert Seconds to Minutes and Seconds - Watch Chris Work!

Frequently we have data in one format but need to convert it to another. Today's example is I have a column on seconds for the length of videos. I want to show minutes and seconds with a colon in between the minutes and seconds. For example, 165 seconds is 2:45 (two minutes and 45 seconds).
The trick to the formula to convert seconds to minutes and seconds is there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in one hour, and 24 hours in one day. We divide the seconds by those numbers multiplied. The formula is Seconds/(60*60*24). Finally, we use format cells and a custom format to show minutes and seconds by using m:ss.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:42 Formula explanation
1:38 Formula Seconds/(60*60/24)
2:18 Format cells for m:ss

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[meowran]

Bro you just saved me from a TON of frustration when trying to record my mile times. Thanks!!!

[ranajsingh]

nice way of explanation, kudos to your hard work.!

[peonynancarrow_creativedesign]

Can you please do a view to show how to format a cell from "15.89" to "0m 15s"? I'm trying to custimze a format that will display the cell value into minutes and seconds. Many thnaks.

[BritoLuize]

This helps, But I've got another problem. When I past the new column as a value so I can delete the previous column, I get the new values as time of the day. They look good on the table, but when I click on them they look like: 12:02:00 am. Instead of duration I'm getting the time of the day and I can't find a solution for that anywhere. I need it to be correct because I need to create visuals on tableau for this dataset. Please help!

[eslamfahmy]

Thanks for good tutorial, but if we have a target line with 4 hours per shipment and we received 3 times per week and the target line calculation are start from the time which accepted those shipment into last box will be scan.

Could you support

[LilyLyraLali]

is there a way to change seconds to minutes without adding a new column?