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Default Formula to calculate someone's exact age

It worked! Awesome! Thanks for the help--you made my day!
--NavyPianoMan

"Niek Otten" wrote:

Look he

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm

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Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"NavyPianoMan" wrote in message
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|I tried using (for example) "=YEAR(D6)-YEAR(E6)" to determine someone's exact
| age based on their birthdate and today's date (formatted military-style as
| dd-mmm-yy). In the example below, the above formula produces an incorrect
| answer because it seems to round up.
| Subtracting the following two dates YEAR(28-Aug-07)-YEAR(17-Sep-83) produces
| the number "24", which is correct when you go by the year "yy", but actually
| incorrect because this person isn't actually 24 years old until 17-Sep-07.
| Why does EXCEL seem to round up?
|