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Adding/subtracting dates to produce AGE in years, months, days

ResolvedVersion 2010

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Adding/subtracting dates to produce AGE in years, months, days

Example:

I have two cells containing dates A1 = 04/07/1965, B1= 01/09/2010, in cell C1 I have the formula =B1-A1 and it reports 16495 ie the number of days from A1 to B1. I wish the cell to report the answer as number of years, months and days i.e. 45y 2m, 9d. In other words the age of the subject.

How do I format the cell to do this?

RE: Adding/subtracting dates to produce AGE in years, months, da

Hi Claire, thanks for your query. It is difficult, but not impossible, to do this. It would take rather a long post on this forum to take you through it step by step but here is a link which covers what you need to know:

http://www.meadinkent.co.uk/xl_birthday.htm

Hope this helps,

Anthony

Excel tip:

Entering text in Multiple Worksheets

If you have a number of worksheets in a workbook that require the same information (data or tables) on each worksheet, this can be done as follows:

Hold down the Ctrl key and click one or more of the additional worksheet tabs (i.e. Sheet2, Sheet3, etc).

In your mainsheet (Sheet1) enter the required data or design a table.

When done 'Click' on the other sheet tabs and you will see that the information entered in Sheet1 is on all the other selected worksheets.

NB Do not forget to deselect the worksheets - otherwise you may add data to the main worksheet and all the selected worksheets will also have that data!

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