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Input masks in Excel

I need to input times, either in minute/seconds/tenths or just seconds/tenths and then rank those times fastest to slowest.

Is there a mask I can use so that I don't need to repeatedly type a colon or a point, but which will still allow me to sort entries?
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That works well, I'd try that if you need it to display as time aswell.  You can always just sort on column A though if you've got 66.2 type entries :-)

Other than that its VBA like Sebastien said where you can have it change what you type into something else but that is probably over complicating things for this one.

You could also enter as:

125.4
to mean 1 minute 25.4 seconds using this formula:
=INT(A1/100) * 60 + A1-(INT(A1/100)*100)

or 1254
to mean 1 minute 25.4 seconds using this formula:
=INT(A2/1000) * 60 + (A2-(INT(A2/1000)*1000))/10

but unless you can't just enter in seconds I'd use sebastien's method!

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