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Frank Kabel
 
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Hi
what is the exact formula you have tried and what error do you get?

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

"Cowtoon" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Ron,
It would appear that I don't know enough about these formulas to

encorporate
your suggestion into my existing formula or I'm not sure what to

replace.
I'm getting an "error", so I'm doing something wrong.

Any thoughts?

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:29:13 -0800, "Cowtoon"
wrote:

Hi,
I used the following formula to calculate the number of months

passed
between two dates. Unfortunately, I need a little more accuracy

than what
this provides. This formula results in full month calculations

only. Is
there a way to get a more accurate calculation. I wouldn't even

mind
calculating the number of weeks and dividing by 4.28 to arrive at

number of
months, but I don't know the "name" for how to count weeks. The

formula
won't accept "WEEK" as a name like it does for "MONTH".
=(YEAR(C2)-YEAR(B2))*12+MONTH(C2)-MONTH(B2) and it works to a

point.

Thanks for any help. Diana
PS ... I posted this request in a reply to one of my own earlier

postings
(which had a different original question) to "general" newsgroup,

but I was
afraid it might get missed because it's not the original question.

My
apologies if this is inappropriate posting behaviour.


Diana,

One problem with "exact" is that months vary in length.

Two suggestions:

1. To compute the number of weeks between your two dates:

=(C2-B2)/7

2. To compute months and days:

Months -- =DATEDIF(B2,C2,"m")
Remaining Days -- =DATEDIF(B2,C2,"md")


--ron