Did you try formatting the cell to the date format..
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"Rob" wrote:

Jacob,

Thank you so much for the reply. For some reason I am getting a number of
1311. Oddly, this is the number of months between 11/1/1900 and today.

My date range clearly reads 11/1/2008, my computer is XP and my excel is
excel 2008.

Do you have any ideas why my dates would be defaulting to 1900?

Thanks again for your reply.

"Jacob Skaria" wrote:

A1 = 11/1/2008
B1 = 4/20/2009

=DATEDIF(A1,B1,"M") will return 5

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"Rob" wrote:

Hello,

Thank you for the reply. I can't seem to get the formula to work correctly.

Today's Date is 4/20/09
Start Date is 11/01/08

I was hoping to get the answer of 6 (for 6 months with April being rounded
up).

Any ideas?

Thanks again for your help!

Best Regards,

Rob

"Rob" wrote:

Hello. I have a spreadsheet that has two cells -- Cell One is always today's
date using formula =Today(). The second cell is a date in the past. How can
I calculate the number of months that have passed (rounded up) from the past
date until today's date? I am hoping to see a number like "7" or "9" and not
days.

Thanks for your help!