Hi Mike H & Ron

Very many thanks for your quick and helpful replies. Both formulas did the
job. :-)

"Mike H" wrote:

try

=DATEDIF(A1,TODAY(),"y")&" Y "&DATEDIF(A1,TODAY(),"ym")& " M
"&DATEDIF(A1,TODAY(),"md")&" d"

However you need to be aware that this can throw up odd results. Try this
day combination for example

31 Jan 1951
01 Mar 2008
which gives
57 years, 1 months, -1 days


Mike

"Popey" wrote:

Hi

Hopefull this will be a simple task for somebody to help this simple Excel
user out :-)

In Cell A1 I have a set date (12 Apr 09).

In Cell B1 I would like to be displayed the time elasped in **y **m **d
(double digit years, months, days) since the date in A1 and today's date.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.