The most important formula in your Excel timesheet is the one that calculates the total hours worked. It's a simple subtraction of the start time from the end time, but with one critical extra step: multiplying the result by 24. The formula looks like this: =(EndTime – StartTime) * 24. Why the multiplication? Because that’s […]
How to Make a Timesheet in Excel From Scratch
Building a timesheet in Excel all starts with the basics: setting up columns for date, start time, end time, and breaks. From there, you just need to get the cell formatting right and plug in a simple formula like =(EndTime – StartTime) * 24 to turn Excel’s time values into decimal hours. Nailing this foundation […]


