I've been looking through past posts on the subject, and am still confused.
I am building a database of race participants which requires the age of each
racer ON race day (July 4th, 2007). There's got to be a way to do it using
the race day and the birthdates, but I can't quite figure it out - and it's
got to be exact, due to the age divisions - if a racer is 55 ON race day and
56 the day AFTER, he or she needs to show up as being 55 in the database.
I've got 7/4/07 loaded in cell J1, and birthdates starting in J3. Any ideas?

Try:

=DATEDIF(A1,A2,"y") & " y, " & DATEDIF(A1,A2,"ym") & " m, " &
DATEDIF(A1,A2,"md") & " d"

Birthday in A1
Race day in A2

Mike

"Rachelle W." wrote:

I've been looking through past posts on the subject, and am still confused.
I am building a database of race participants which requires the age of each
racer ON race day (July 4th, 2007). There's got to be a way to do it using
the race day and the birthdates, but I can't quite figure it out - and it's
got to be exact, due to the age divisions - if a racer is 55 ON race day and
56 the day AFTER, he or she needs to show up as being 55 in the database.
I've got 7/4/07 loaded in cell J1, and birthdates starting in J3. Any ideas?

Try:

=DATEDIF(J3,J1,"y")

--
HTH

Sandy
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and the crowning place of kings


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"Rachelle W." <Rachelle wrote in message
...
I've been looking through past posts on the subject, and am still
confused.
I am building a database of race participants which requires the age of
each
racer ON race day (July 4th, 2007). There's got to be a way to do it
using
the race day and the birthdates, but I can't quite figure it out - and
it's
got to be exact, due to the age divisions - if a racer is 55 ON race day
and
56 the day AFTER, he or she needs to show up as being 55 in the database.
I've got 7/4/07 loaded in cell J1, and birthdates starting in J3. Any
ideas?

Sorry I missed the bit about how your data are laid out. Put this in K3 and
drag down to give the ages of the people in J3 down

=DATEDIF(J3,J$1,"y") & " y, " & DATEDIF(J3,J$1,"ym") & " m, " &
DATEDIF(J3,J$1,"md") & " d"

Mike

"Rachelle W." wrote:

I've been looking through past posts on the subject, and am still confused.
I am building a database of race participants which requires the age of each
racer ON race day (July 4th, 2007). There's got to be a way to do it using
the race day and the birthdates, but I can't quite figure it out - and it's
got to be exact, due to the age divisions - if a racer is 55 ON race day and
56 the day AFTER, he or she needs to show up as being 55 in the database.
I've got 7/4/07 loaded in cell J1, and birthdates starting in J3. Any ideas?

Perfect! I've never used DATEDIF before, and all the extra stuff about
months and days was confusing me. It works now.
Thanks!
Rachelle

"Sandy Mann" wrote:

Try:

=DATEDIF(J3,J1,"y")

--
HTH

Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
and the crowning place of kings


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"Rachelle W." <Rachelle wrote in message
...
I've been looking through past posts on the subject, and am still
confused.
I am building a database of race participants which requires the age of
each
racer ON race day (July 4th, 2007). There's got to be a way to do it
using
the race day and the birthdates, but I can't quite figure it out - and
it's
got to be exact, due to the age divisions - if a racer is 55 ON race day
and
56 the day AFTER, he or she needs to show up as being 55 in the database.
I've got 7/4/07 loaded in cell J1, and birthdates starting in J3. Any
ideas?

Between you and Sandy, I got it - didn't need the month/day calculations
returned (just the age in years), so all that "extra" stuff in the formula
was confusing me.
Thanks!
Rachelle

"Mike H" wrote:

Sorry I missed the bit about how your data are laid out. Put this in K3 and
drag down to give the ages of the people in J3 down

=DATEDIF(J3,J$1,"y") & " y, " & DATEDIF(J3,J$1,"ym") & " m, " &
DATEDIF(J3,J$1,"md") & " d"

Mike

"Rachelle W." wrote:

I've been looking through past posts on the subject, and am still confused.
I am building a database of race participants which requires the age of each
racer ON race day (July 4th, 2007). There's got to be a way to do it using
the race day and the birthdates, but I can't quite figure it out - and it's
got to be exact, due to the age divisions - if a racer is 55 ON race day and
56 the day AFTER, he or she needs to show up as being 55 in the database.
I've got 7/4/07 loaded in cell J1, and birthdates starting in J3. Any ideas?

You're very welcome. Mike picked up on the part that I missed. If you want
to copy the formula down using the fill handle make the J1 reference
absolute:

=DATEDIF(J3,$J$1,"y")

DATEDIF() is only documented in XL2000 but has been in all versions since
XL95
--
HTH

Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
and the crowning place of kings


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"Rachelle W." wrote in message
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Perfect! I've never used DATEDIF before, and all the extra stuff about
months and days was confusing me. It works now.
Thanks!
Rachelle

"Sandy Mann" wrote:

Try:

=DATEDIF(J3,J1,"y")

--
HTH

Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
and the crowning place of kings


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"Rachelle W." <Rachelle wrote in message
...
I've been looking through past posts on the subject, and am still
confused.
I am building a database of race participants which requires the age of
each
racer ON race day (July 4th, 2007). There's got to be a way to do it
using
the race day and the birthdates, but I can't quite figure it out - and
it's
got to be exact, due to the age divisions - if a racer is 55 ON race
day
and
56 the day AFTER, he or she needs to show up as being 55 in the
database.
I've got 7/4/07 loaded in cell J1, and birthdates starting in J3. Any
ideas?

*grin* Refreshed my memory regarding absolute references last week - but
thanks for the reminder. I originally created the spreadsheet in Open
Office, but the formula didn't "translate" to Excel, and there was,
apparently, quite the bruhaha at the first packet pick-up session the other
night. 'Tis fixed now, though, so we're aces.
Rachelle

"Sandy Mann" wrote:

You're very welcome. Mike picked up on the part that I missed. If you want
to copy the formula down using the fill handle make the J1 reference
absolute:

=DATEDIF(J3,$J$1,"y")

DATEDIF() is only documented in XL2000 but has been in all versions since
XL95
--
HTH

Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
and the crowning place of kings


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"Rachelle W." wrote in message
...
Perfect! I've never used DATEDIF before, and all the extra stuff about
months and days was confusing me. It works now.
Thanks!
Rachelle

"Sandy Mann" wrote:

Try:

=DATEDIF(J3,J1,"y")

--
HTH

Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
and the crowning place of kings


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"Rachelle W." <Rachelle wrote in message
...
I've been looking through past posts on the subject, and am still
confused.
I am building a database of race participants which requires the age of
each
racer ON race day (July 4th, 2007). There's got to be a way to do it
using
the race day and the birthdates, but I can't quite figure it out - and
it's
got to be exact, due to the age divisions - if a racer is 55 ON race
day
and
56 the day AFTER, he or she needs to show up as being 55 in the
database.
I've got 7/4/07 loaded in cell J1, and birthdates starting in J3. Any
ideas?