Try something like this:
Where A1 contains the birthdate...
B1: =DATEDIF(A1,TODAY(),"y")& "Yrs "&DATEDIF(A1,TODAY(),"yd")&" Days"

For documentation on the DATEDIF function see Chip Pearson's site:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm


Does that help?

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Regards,
Ron


"doctor who golf" wrote:

i have members birth dates in Exel an whant to display them diffrently
at present they are like this 10/8/1943, 1/3/1943.
would like them to look like 62yrs 15days