Calculating Age

Dear Janice

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Yo calculate the age from DOB please follow these steps:

1. Create a query in design view

2. Download all the fields that you wich to see in the result view

3. On the new field in the grid box of the query design view type in the following:

Age: (Date()-[dob])/365


Age is the name if the new field

Date() is the current date

[dob] is the date of birth field

/365 is ensure that the result is in years

If you see too many digits after the decimal places please right-clcik on the age filed and change the decimal places to 0.


I hope this has answered your query.

If this has answered your query then I would request you to please mark the question as resolved!! If not and you have a specific question related to this then please post it as a new question and we should be able to provide you the solution for it!!

Kindest Regards


Rajeev Rawat
MOS Master Instructor 2000 and 2003
MCAS Master Instructor 2007