Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Calculating Negative Time Differences in Hundredths of a Second

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Calculating Negative Time Differences in Hundredths of a Second
When you want to calculate differences in time when the measurements are in hundredths of a second, special consideration must be given for cases when the result is negative. The next pictures show examples of calculations when the Actual time is less than expected; exactly as expected, and more than expected.
If every calculation was to have a positive result, you could use the formula
=IF(A2 > =B2,A2-B2,"- "&B2-A2)
A problem happens when, as shown in cell C4 using that formula, the result is a negative number displayed in an unintuitive format.

The next picture shows the first formula revised with the TEXT function:
=IF(A2 > =B2,A2-B2,"- "&TEXT(B2-A2,"mm:ss.00"))

The cells are custom-formatted mm:ss.00