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Excel: Insert colon in military time column?

We have a excel work sheet, there is a very long column that states the time for an event. We need the time in the format below:


Original
hhmm

Needed Change
hh:mm


This is my original code below for other changes, if it could be added for range G:G for example that would be great!

Thanks!

Sub replaceText()
Dim c As Range, rg As Range
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Set rg = Intersect(Range("A:A"), ActiveSheet.UsedRange)
For Each c In rg.Cells          'Only search column L
    Select Case c.Value
        Case "B"              	'Old value
            c.Value = 3         'New value
            
        Case "BAP"              'Old value
            c.Value = 3         'New value
            
        Case "BB"               'Old value
            c.Value = 3    	'New value
            
       

        Case Else               'Do nothing
    End Select
Next

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Set rg = Intersect(Range("C:C"), ActiveSheet.UsedRange)
For Each c In rg.Cells          'Only search column L
    Select Case c.Value
        Case "M"              'Old value
            c.Value = "Male"         'New value
            
        Case "F"              'Old value
            c.Value = "Female"         'New value
            
            
        Case Else               'Do nothing
    End Select
Next
Set rg = Intersect(Range("D:D"), ActiveSheet.UsedRange)
rg.NumberFormat = "@"
For Each c In rg.Cells          'Only search column D (ARADMDT)
    If c <> "" Then c.Value = Mid(c.Value, 5, 2) & Right(c.Value, 2) & Left(c.Value, 4)       'Change date from yyyymmdd to ddmmyyyy
Next
End Sub

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Hello,

are the time values text or numbers? How do times between midnight and 1 am show? With leading zeroes?

It might be useful to see a few samples, including values just after midnight.

cheers, teylyn
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I did a cut and paste from the original document. (Attached) This is what an example of what their work currently is.

The sheet of changes states it needs to be changed to hh:mm. That's all it said that is needing to be changed. So I'm assuming just a colon is needed.
times.xlsx
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Worked flawlessly, thank you so much!
Say I have one last question I forgot to ask before I marked this question as answered, is there a way to add a zero for example 06:00 instead of 6:00? Thanks!
The cells are actually converted to time values. How they display can be specified with the cell format. So, you may want to use the custom format

hh:mm

after running the macro.

cheers, teylyn