Have a look at

http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/usertips/tip028.htm

for help with dates

Best rgds
Chris Lav

"Bob Martin" <Bob wrote in message
...
I'm attempting to create an Excel timeline of battles and major eveins in
United States history. I want one of the column's to show how many years
it
has been since that date.
For example, say A6 has July 4, 1776. Cell A1 has the formula =Today()
Every time I use the formula =Year(A1)-Year(A6) I get an error message
in
the cell.