Excel Birthdates and Age

[David]

I need to produce a spreadsheet providing the current
ages of students - based on entering their date of birth
dd/mm/yy and returning their current age in years months
and days. I sure it is possible - but beyond me!!
David

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
have a look at
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm#Age

 

[Norman Harker]

Hi David!

Use:
=DATEDIF(A1,B1,"y") & " y " & DATEDIF(A1,B1,"ym") & " m " &
DATEDIF(A1,B1,"md") & " d"

You can put =TODAY() in B1 or replace B1 by TODAY()

For details of the mysterious DATEDIF function see:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm

But you might get some difficult to interpret results if you want the
age on 1st March of someone born 31st January it returns something
like:

9 y 1 m -2 d

Don't blame the function! Blame us having different numbers of days in
a month and the awkward time span of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
--
Regards
Norman Harker MVP (Excel)
Sydney, Australia
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