That too rounds to even number, not fractional
"y" Years The number of complete years between Date1 and Date2.

same as =Year(a2)-Year(a1)
Thanks though
Mark

I'm just surprised that it doesn't return the actual value and let the user
format as required.
Oh well, the one I came up with is good enough for what I need.
Just thought I must be missing something simple.

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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Take a look at Chip Pearson's instructions on how to use =datedif().

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

MP wrote:

=(YEAR(B7)-YEAR($B$6))+((MONTH(B7)-MONTH($B$6))/12)

is this the easiest way to calculate number of years(including
fractions)
between two dates?

I thought =YEAR(B7)-YEAR($B$6) would have done it
if b7 = 3/12/1999 and b6 = 1/12/1998 the answer is 1.00
so it's apparently just rounding the number to whole years

the first formula seems to work but I didn't think it would have to be
that
complicated
thanks
Mark

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Dave Peterson