Hi carlharris

With the date in A2
This will also work if it is negative

=IF(A2<=TODAY(),DATEDIF(A2,TODAY(),"Y") & " y " & DATEDIF(A2,TODAY(),"ym") & " m","-"&DATEDIF(TODAY(),A2,"y")& " y "
&DATEDIF(TODAY(),A2,"ym")& " m")

With DateRefiner you can insert this formula in your data table if you want
http://www.rondebruin.nl/datarefiner.htm


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Regards Ron de Bruin
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"carlharris" wrote in message
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I have a spreadsheet and I want to have ages in a YY: MM format (excel
doesnt like that, any help would be great). eg. 11:08 is 11 years and 8
months.

I will have an actual age for every entry and then a reading age in the
same format for every entry. I will then calculate the difference and
put them in order of the highest difference.

I basically need to know the formula for the format I want to use as my
efforts have not come to fruition as yet!

Thank you in advance, this is a great little community by the looks of
it!

Carl


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