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Calculating Difference Between Two Dates Using Only Year
I'm using Excel 2007. I'm trying to calculate the Age at Death when given
the birth and death years. I tried using the =DATEDIF function, but 2007 doesn't seem to support it. Then I tried =YEAR(C3)-YEAR(D3), and you can see the results below. I think it's because I entered the years as text, but when I tried to format the columns for the date, I couldn't find a format that would let me list ONLY the year. I had to have a month and/or day too. I'm not an excel expert, so I'm probably missing something fundamental. Any help? Surname Given Name Birth Yr Death Yr Age at Death Adam Catharine 1859 5 Adam Joseph 1806 1876 -1 Adam Josephine 1856 1942 -- Rachel |
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Excel doesn't support dates before Jan 1 1900.
If you try to enter a date before Jan 1 1900 Excel evaluates it as a TEXT string, not a date. See if this helps: http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php...re_1900_dates/ -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "rew3791" wrote in message ... I'm using Excel 2007. I'm trying to calculate the Age at Death when given the birth and death years. I tried using the =DATEDIF function, but 2007 doesn't seem to support it. Then I tried =YEAR(C3)-YEAR(D3), and you can see the results below. I think it's because I entered the years as text, but when I tried to format the columns for the date, I couldn't find a format that would let me list ONLY the year. I had to have a month and/or day too. I'm not an excel expert, so I'm probably missing something fundamental. Any help? Surname Given Name Birth Yr Death Yr Age at Death Adam Catharine 1859 5 Adam Joseph 1806 1876 -1 Adam Josephine 1856 1942 -- Rachel |
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If it is just the year you have in ColC and Col D try
=IF(COUNT(C1:D1)=2,D1-C1,"") If this post helps click Yes --------------- Jacob Skaria "rew3791" wrote: I'm using Excel 2007. I'm trying to calculate the Age at Death when given the birth and death years. I tried using the =DATEDIF function, but 2007 doesn't seem to support it. Then I tried =YEAR(C3)-YEAR(D3), and you can see the results below. I think it's because I entered the years as text, but when I tried to format the columns for the date, I couldn't find a format that would let me list ONLY the year. I had to have a month and/or day too. I'm not an excel expert, so I'm probably missing something fundamental. Any help? Surname Given Name Birth Yr Death Yr Age at Death Adam Catharine 1859 5 Adam Joseph 1806 1876 -1 Adam Josephine 1856 1942 -- Rachel |
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DATEDIF is supported in 2007, just as it was in 2003 and other versions.
The only respect in which it isn't supported is that (inexplicably) it isn't included in Excel help (and as far as I am aware it is the only function to be omitted therefrom). You'll find details at http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.aspx But, as others have pointed out, you don't have dates (which wouldn't be valid before 1900) but you merely have a year; so in that case you don't want =YEAR(C3)-YEAR(D3) but instead you want =C3-D3 -- David Biddulph "rew3791" wrote in message ... I'm using Excel 2007. I'm trying to calculate the Age at Death when given the birth and death years. I tried using the =DATEDIF function, but 2007 doesn't seem to support it. Then I tried =YEAR(C3)-YEAR(D3), and you can see the results below. I think it's because I entered the years as text, but when I tried to format the columns for the date, I couldn't find a format that would let me list ONLY the year. I had to have a month and/or day too. I'm not an excel expert, so I'm probably missing something fundamental. Any help? Surname Given Name Birth Yr Death Yr Age at Death Adam Catharine 1859 5 Adam Joseph 1806 1876 -1 Adam Josephine 1856 1942 -- Rachel |
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Rick Rothstein reported a bug in DATEDIF when using Excel 2007 with SP2.
=DATEDIF(DATE(2009,6,27),DATE(2012,1,5),"md") In Excel 2007 with SP2 that formula returns 122 when the correct result should be 9. Excel 2007 with SP1 returns the correct result. -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk wrote in message ... DATEDIF is supported in 2007, just as it was in 2003 and other versions. The only respect in which it isn't supported is that (inexplicably) it isn't included in Excel help (and as far as I am aware it is the only function to be omitted therefrom). You'll find details at http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.aspx But, as others have pointed out, you don't have dates (which wouldn't be valid before 1900) but you merely have a year; so in that case you don't want =YEAR(C3)-YEAR(D3) but instead you want =C3-D3 -- David Biddulph "rew3791" wrote in message ... I'm using Excel 2007. I'm trying to calculate the Age at Death when given the birth and death years. I tried using the =DATEDIF function, but 2007 doesn't seem to support it. Then I tried =YEAR(C3)-YEAR(D3), and you can see the results below. I think it's because I entered the years as text, but when I tried to format the columns for the date, I couldn't find a format that would let me list ONLY the year. I had to have a month and/or day too. I'm not an excel expert, so I'm probably missing something fundamental. Any help? Surname Given Name Birth Yr Death Yr Age at Death Adam Catharine 1859 5 Adam Joseph 1806 1876 -1 Adam Josephine 1856 1942 -- Rachel |
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rew3791 wrote:
I'm using Excel 2007. I'm trying to calculate the Age at Death when given the birth and death years. I tried using the =DATEDIF function, but 2007 doesn't seem to support it. Then I tried =YEAR(C3)-YEAR(D3), and you can see the results below. I think it's because I entered the years as text, but when I tried to format the columns for the date, I couldn't find a format that would let me list ONLY the year. I had to have a month and/or day too. I'm not an excel expert, so I'm probably missing something fundamental. Any help? Surname Given Name Birth Yr Death Yr Age at Death Adam Catharine 1859 5 Adam Joseph 1806 1876 -1 Adam Josephine 1856 1942 If you're just concerned about the year, format the columns with years in them as numbers, not dates. This completely avoids the pre-1900 problem. Bill |
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