{"id":14730,"date":"2021-12-15T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=14730"},"modified":"2021-12-15T13:44:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:44:38","slug":"solved-how-to-create-a-real-time-counter-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/office\/how-to-create-a-realtime-counter-in-excel\/12478.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved How To Create a Real-Time Counter In Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve created an excel worksheet, and I&#8217;m trying to track the time that it takes to finish a project. My problem is that I need to see a running (real-time) clock that shows the days elapsed between the time the person starts the project &#8220;Start Date&#8221; (signified by them entering a start date, month\/day\/yr), and the time that they finish the project &#8220;Completion date.&#8221; (signified by the person entering an End date, month\/day\/yr).<\/p>\n<p>Once the person completes the project, and enters the &#8220;Completion date.&#8221; The timer needs to stop, and retain the number of elapsed days.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if the real-time counter is formatted to display in Days, Hours, and minutes. I also want to avoid getting error messages when either cell is empty. Is this something that you can help me with? Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":26},"question-category":[53],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-14730","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-office"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/14730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=14730"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=14730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}