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How do I subtract today's date from one before 1900?
I'm attempting to create an Excel timeline of battles and major eveins in
United States history. I want one of the column's to show how many years it has been since that date. For example, say A6 has July 4, 1776. Cell A1 has the formula =Today() Every time I use the formula =Year(A1)-Year(A6) I get an error message in the cell. |
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Sadly, dates only go back to 1900.
-- Gary''s Student "Bob Martin" wrote: I'm attempting to create an Excel timeline of battles and major eveins in United States history. I want one of the column's to show how many years it has been since that date. For example, say A6 has July 4, 1776. Cell A1 has the formula =Today() Every time I use the formula =Year(A1)-Year(A6) I get an error message in the cell. |
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The bad news is excel only supports dates since 1900.
But John Walkenbach has an addin that will help you: http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/files/xdate.htm Bob Martin wrote: I'm attempting to create an Excel timeline of battles and major eveins in United States history. I want one of the column's to show how many years it has been since that date. For example, say A6 has July 4, 1776. Cell A1 has the formula =Today() Every time I use the formula =Year(A1)-Year(A6) I get an error message in the cell. -- Dave Peterson |
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