Try the YEAR function. Look it up In Excel help.
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David Biddulph

"User" wrote in message
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I would like to know the formula by which we can find out the year from the
given dates
Eg; Date of Joining coloum has 10/01/97, 05/06/2001 so from this i should
get the year as 1997 and 2001...
Kindly suggest some formula to help me out for the desired output