How to convert military time to standard time in Excel?

Maybe you have accepted a worksheet with a list of military time as shown as below, and you are used to viewing standard time, so you want to convert these military time to standard time in Excel, how can you do?

Convert military time to standard with formula in Excel
Convert standard time to military with formula in Excel

Convert military time to standard with formula in Excel

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In Excel, you can convert the military time to standard time with formula quickly.

1. Select a blank cell to type this formula =TIMEVALUE(LEFT(A1,2)&":"&MID(A1,3,2)&":"&RIGHT(A1,2)) (A1 indicates the cell you want to convert the military time to standard time, you can change it as you need), and press Enter key, then drag the fill handle to fill the range you want. See screenshot:

2. Then select the range B1:B6 (the range you use the above formula, you can change it as you need), and right click to click Format Cells. See screenshot:

3. In the Format Cells dialog, click Number tab, and click Time from the Category box, then select the standard time format from the right section. See screenshot:

4. Click OK, you can see the result:

Tip: If the military time just has hour and minute such as 2323, you can use this formula =TIMEVALUE(LEFT(A1,2)&":"&RIGHT(A1,2)) and then follow the above steps to convert it to standard time. See screenshot:

Convert standard time to military with formula in Excel

To convert standard time to military time, you also can use a formula to solve it.

Select a blank cell, and type this formula =TEXT(A1,"HHMMSS") (A1 indicates the cell you want to convert the military time to standard time, you can change it as you need), and press Enter, then drag the fill handle to fill the range you want. See screenshot:

Tip: If the standard time just have hour and minute such as 11:23 PM, you can use this formula =TEXT(A1,"HHMM"). See screenshot:

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