We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to screen out
anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a means of calculating
the age from the current date and the date of birth. Is there a function that
can do this?

=DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"y") & " years, " & DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"ym") & " months, " &
DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"md") & " days"
--

HTH


RP
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"Pate" wrote in message
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We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to screen out
anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a means of
calculating
the age from the current date and the date of birth. Is there a function
that
can do this?

One way,
with the DOB in A1 and =TODAY() in B1
=(B1-A1)/365.25
Format the cell this is in as Number,
Regards,
Alan
"Pate" wrote in message
...
We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to screen out
anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a means of
calculating
the age from the current date and the date of birth. Is there a function
that
can do this?

Take a look at http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm#Age

"Pate" wrote:

We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to screen out
anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a means of calculating
the age from the current date and the date of birth. Is there a function that
can do this?

Note that this gives nonsense answers when the beginning month is longer
than the end month:

on 1 March 2006, this formula will, for

A1: 31 January 1988

return "17 years, 1 months, -2 days"

Since you don't need the days, better to ditch the extra functions and
use

=DATEDIF(A1, TODAY(), "y") & " years old"

or,

=IF(DATEDIF(A1,TODAY(),"y")=18,"OK","Too young")



(You could use NOW(), instead, but adding the time doesn't matter with
DATEDIF)


In article ,
"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"y") & " years, " & DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"ym") & " months, " &
DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"md") & " days"

"Pate" wrote:

We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to screen out
anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a means of calculating
the age from the current date and the date of birth. Is there a function that
can do this?

"Pate" wrote:

We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to screen out
anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a means of calculating
the age from the current date and the date of birth. Is there a function that
can do this?

Chip Pearson shows how at this link:

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

Hope this helps.

Pete

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in excel i want to calculate days between two dates

for e. g.

16/10/2008 minus 14/08/2008
(dd/mm/yyyy)

please explain and if possible give me an example.

my alernate email address is



please help me out

thanks

=raj kapadia, surat, india

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"y") & " years, " & DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"ym") & " months, " &
DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"md") & " days"
--

HTH


RP
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"Pate" wrote in message
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We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to screen out
anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a means of
calculating
the age from the current date and the date of birth. Is there a function
that
can do this?

i want to calculate days between two dates

eg 16/10/2008 minus 14/08/2008
(dd/mm/yyyy)

pls explain giving example at my email address



thanks

=raj kapadia, surat, india

"Pate" wrote:

We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to screen out
anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a means of calculating
the age from the current date and the date of birth. Is there a function that
can do this?

Yes you got it right in saying "16/10/2008 minus 14/08/2008".

If your dates are in A2 and B2 respectively, the formula for the number of
days is =A2-B2. The explanation is that Excel dates are stored as a number
of days from an origin at the start of 1900 (or of 1904, depending on which
options you have set).

Note that when you ask a question in a newsgroup, the answer comes in the
newsgroup, not by e-mail. The reason for that is so that the answer can be
of use to other readers of the group (and so that other contributors can
correct me when I've got it wrong).
--
David Biddulph

"RAJ KAPADIA, SURAT, INDIA" <RAJ KAPADIA, SURAT,
wrote in message
...
in excel i want to calculate days between two dates

for e. g.

16/10/2008 minus 14/08/2008
(dd/mm/yyyy)

please explain and if possible give me an example.

my alernate email address is



please help me out

thanks

=raj kapadia, surat, india

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"y") & " years, " & DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"ym") & " months,
" &
DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"md") & " days"
--

HTH


RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Pate" wrote in message
...
We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to screen
out
anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a means of
calculating
the age from the current date and the date of birth. Is there a
function
that
can do this?

Bob you saved my day! I was trying to figure out how to get the yrs and
months of students birhtdates for a standardized test spread sheet and your
formula was right on the money! You sved me many hours of number crunching.
I owe you a beer!
Coffeemom

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"y") & " years, " & DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"ym") & " months, " &
DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"md") & " days"
--

HTH


RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Pate" wrote in message
...
We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to screen out
anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a means of
calculating
the age from the current date and the date of birth. Is there a function
that
can do this?

Can you add a "weeks" field to this?

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"y") & " years, " & DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"ym") & " months, " &
DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"md") & " days"
--

HTH


RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Pate" wrote in message
...
We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to screen out
anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a means of
calculating
the age from the current date and the date of birth. Is there a function
that
can do this?

1 week is 7 days, so:

=DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"y") & " years, " & DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"ym") & " months, " &
INT(DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"md")/7) & " weeks" & MOD(DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"md"),7) & "
days"
--
David Biddulph

Mommybritches wrote:
Can you add a "weeks" field to this?

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"y") & " years, " & DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"ym") & "
months, " & DATEDIF(A1,NOW(),"md") & " days"
--

HTH


RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Pate" wrote in message
...
We are using Excel as a manual log of visits. We would like to
screen out anyone that is not 18 years old and were looking for a
means of calculating the age from the current date and the date of
birth. Is there a function that can do this?