Calculate Age in Excel

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show how to calculate how old you are in Microsoft Excel.

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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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