Subtracting Dates
 

Afternoon.

I am trying to subtract dates on an excel worksheet and find the term between the two. For example (english date format dd/mm/yy)

01/01/05 - 01/01/04 = 365 days or 1 year

I would ideally like the output to be years then months then days but anything would do. Is this possible in excel? If not does anyone know of an online calculator that could do this?

Thanks

Sam

Subtracting Dates
 

Hi

The easiest answer is to take one from the other:
=A3-A2
and format the result as General.

Andy.

"sam" wrote in message
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Afternoon.

I am trying to subtract dates on an excel worksheet and find the term
between the two. For example (english date format dd/mm/yy)

01/01/05 - 01/01/04 = 365 days or 1 year

I would ideally like the output to be years then months then days but
anything would do. Is this possible in excel? If not does anyone know
of an online calculator that could do this?

Thanks

Sam


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sam

Subtracting Dates
 

there is an undocumented function called datedif() which can be used
see: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm
for a description.

"sam" wrote:


Afternoon.

I am trying to subtract dates on an excel worksheet and find the term
between the two. For example (english date format dd/mm/yy)

01/01/05 - 01/01/04 = 365 days or 1 year

I would ideally like the output to be years then months then days but
anything would do. Is this possible in excel? If not does anyone know
of an online calculator that could do this?

Thanks

Sam


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sam

Subtracting Dates
 

There is a function called Datedif. It takes the format as follows:-

DATEDIF(START DATE,END DATE,"[D,M,Y]")

where D is quoted in days, M is quoted in months and Y is quoted in
Years


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