Calculate Age in Excel

Edited by Djinu, Alexander Avdeev, Eng

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    We enter our birthdate into cell "A1"
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    We enter the current date into cell "B1"
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    In cell "C1", we type "=datedif("
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    We click cell "A1"
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    We type ","
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    We click cell "B1"
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    We type ","Y")"
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    This will give us the number of years.
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    If we want to find out how many days old we are, we copy the formula to another cell
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    We make sure that the new formula is "DATEDIF(A1,B1,"D")"
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    Also, the cell values can be absolute so that we can copy that formula over without correcting it much. We will be shown how many days old we are.
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Recent edits by: Alexander Avdeev, Djinu

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