LibreOffice Calc: How to get total for HH:MM:SS cells

It's a matter of formatting the cells. You will have to apply the format code [HH]:MM:SS. It's already predefined:

FormatCells

(Screenshot from LibreOffice 3.4.3)


Very often the time value is presented as a string ie. appears as '01:00:00 when formatted as time.

There are two solutions to this:

  1. To delete the single quote. This is extremely tedious if there are more values

  2. To create another cell which uses a formula to convert to timevalue. If eg A1 contains '01:00:00 then create another cell with =TIMEVALUE(A1), the formula can be dragged along to easily convert multiple values