Convert Age to Months
 

Hi - I would like to calculate a child's age into months. For example, if a
child is 1 year old, the cell would read '12' months old.

What's more important, I don't want to round up to the nearest month. So,
if a child turned 12months on 12/15/09 (born 12/15/08) and today is 1/6/2010,
I would like it to round down to 24months.

It would only turn 25months if today was 1/15/2010.

Regards, Meg

Convert Age to Months
 

Use the datedif function something like this...

=DATEDIF(A1, TODAY(), "m")

Here is a link on using datedif
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.aspx
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Meg" wrote:

Hi - I would like to calculate a child's age into months. For example, if a
child is 1 year old, the cell would read '12' months old.

What's more important, I don't want to round up to the nearest month. So,
if a child turned 12months on 12/15/09 (born 12/15/08) and today is 1/6/2010,
I would like it to round down to 24months.

It would only turn 25months if today was 1/15/2010.

Regards, Meg

Convert Age to Months
 

I'm confused!

If the birth date is 12/15/2008 and today is 1/6/2010 then their age in
(full) months is 12. How do you get 24 or 25? They wouldn't be 24 months old
until 12/15/2010.

See if this does what you want:

A1 = birth date

=DATEDIF(A1,TODAY(),"m")

See this:

http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/datedif.aspx

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Meg" wrote in message
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Hi - I would like to calculate a child's age into months. For example, if
a
child is 1 year old, the cell would read '12' months old.

What's more important, I don't want to round up to the nearest month. So,
if a child turned 12months on 12/15/09 (born 12/15/08) and today is
1/6/2010,
I would like it to round down to 24months.

It would only turn 25months if today was 1/15/2010.

Regards, Meg

Convert Age to Months
 

This is great, thank you very much!

Meg

"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

Use the datedif function something like this...

=DATEDIF(A1, TODAY(), "m")

Here is a link on using datedif
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.aspx
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Meg" wrote:

Hi - I would like to calculate a child's age into months. For example, if a
child is 1 year old, the cell would read '12' months old.

What's more important, I don't want to round up to the nearest month. So,
if a child turned 12months on 12/15/09 (born 12/15/08) and today is 1/6/2010,
I would like it to round down to 24months.

It would only turn 25months if today was 1/15/2010.

Regards, Meg