HI, Helmut.  I read through all the Helps on "Time", but didn't find
anything that addresses what I was thinking of.  It's quite possible I
simply don't understand how to mesh what I read with what I want to do.

I scan plain text documents for data points and write the data into an Excel
spreadsheet.  In one section of the document, there are lists of times.
These are not clock times as "3:45 pm", but the length of time a job took to
complete stated as "03:45", meaning 3 hours and 45 minutes.

I'm using an array because each line will have four different time spans.
My idea was to scan through a line, collect each time and write it to the
proper place in the array, then drop to the next line and add the time span
to the previous value.  When I've reached the last line, the code will drop
out of the loop and the array values will be written to the spreadsheet.
All of this I can do, except for getting the times to simply be the
quantities of  hours and minutes and add together as such.  Everything I've
tried wants these to be clock times.

Any nudge you can give to put my thinking in the right direction will be
greatly appreciated.

Ed