need help with a formula for numbers

Formula for calculating elapsed time in second half tab of Numbers programme

I have this numbers programme I am using. it has 2 tabs one saying first half and the other saying second half. tab first half counts column A is for the actual time. I click on the relevant box in column A and then cell and input the actual time. column b then show says kick off and then every time I click on column a and input the actual time then column B shows the time elapsed between each one. example =

  • A4: 10:00:00 (Kick-off - Time only)
  • B4: Kick Off
  • A5: 10:01:25 (Next Event - Time only) --> B5: 01:25
  • A6: 10:10:00 --> B6: 10:00
  • A7: 10:45:30 --> B7: 45:30

That all works fine.

My problem is that in my second half tab I want the time to start at 45:00

so A2, I would input the actual time and B2 would say kick off.

so the next time when I click on A3 to input the time it would say ex (4:01:35 or 16:01:35) and then column B3 would say 46:35 and so on and so forth so if my last time input was 4:47:30 the corrosponding column in line B would show as 92:30.

I have tried multiple formulas and can not get this to work.

any help would be appreciated as even open ai says its tried everything and to seek help from apple



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Posted on Jul 23, 2025 2:47 PM

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Jul 23, 2025 5:25 PM in response to Bukko25

I'm not sure I follow exactly what you are doing (first half starts at 10, second half starts at 4?) but you should be able to take the formula you are using for the first half and +"45m", something like this:







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