Are you sure you want to format that as date, Dave?
=YEAR(TODAY()) formatted as date will give you 29th June 1905. I would
prefer to see it formatted as General or Number.
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David Biddulph

"Dave F" wrote in message
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=YEAR(TODAY())

Format as date, not number.

Dave

"JohnU" wrote:

I am using the NOW() function to insert the current date. This works
fine,
except I am attempting to extract only the year (i.e. 2007) from this
function.

The problem is that Excel expresses the value of the date as a number (x
number of days from January 1, 1900). I can get the format to display
the
date in an mm/dd/yyyy format, I just can not extract the year all alone.
I
need to get the year by itself for another calculation.

Any ideas?