I have sport data that I imported from a website link into google sheet using importhtml() function
| # | Team | MP | W | WO | LO | L | G | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Red Eagles Hokkaido | 26 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 110:55 | 64 |
| 2. | Nikko Ice Bucks | 24 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 106:65 | 48 |
| 3. | Tohoku Free Blades | 28 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 98:82 | 44 |
| 4. | East Hokkaido Cranes | 26 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 86:85 | 34 |
| 5. | Yokohama Grits | 28 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 44:157 | 8 |
There is a particular column named G in which, two data are combined together in each cells and partitioned with colon : and when the data is imported into the google sheet, it formats G column as date/time.
Examples given:
For the first cell of colum G, which has 110:55 from the website, it was imported as 110:55:00. That is in hh:mm:ss format.
For the second cell which has 106:65 on the site, it was imported as 107:05:00 in hh:mm:ss. The 65 in the data from website was assumed to be 65min, then it was counted as an hour and was added to initial 106 to make it 107.
Attached is the pic of how the table looks when imported to google sheet
the affected column was painted in purple
How can I work around it?
Similar question was answered in this thread Trying to use Google Sheets importHTML() to import a table. It forces content to a date format
