Is there a way in a Smartsheet column to convert a Text value into a Numeric value?
For example, I have a column called "Duration", formatted as a "Text/Number" column type, and I have values in that column that are in the HH:MM:SS format, and look something like this: 00:15:00, 01:20:00, etc.
I'm trying to add a few of these together to calculate the "Total Duration", but there is not a simple way to do this in Smartsheet, so I am attempting to "dissassemble" each cell into parts, then add the parts together, and then "combine" the parts into the HH:MM:SS format.
So far I have been able to "dissassemble" the cell values into three new columns by using the LEFT(), MID(), and RIGHT() functions. This works, but when I do that the resulting cells contain text values not numerical values - which means that the SUM() function does not work.
Any ideas on how to convert the "deconstructed" cells into numerical values?
Thanks for the help!
Regards,
David