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I want to calculate someone's age from a year not from today's date.

ie: the birthday is August 16, 1979 if we calculate from (today) it will
say 27 but i want to calculate from the year (2007) - so it will show 28
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Can't you just do =DATEDIF(8/16/07,8/16/79)?

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I want to calculate someone's age from a year not from today's date.

ie: the birthday is August 16, 1979 if we calculate from (today) it will
say 27 but i want to calculate from the year (2007) - so it will show 28

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=DATEDIF(A1,DATE(YEAR(TODAY())+1,MONTH(TODAY()),DA Y(TODAY())),"Y")

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I want to calculate someone's age from a year not from today's date.

ie: the birthday is August 16, 1979 if we calculate from (today) it will
say 27 but i want to calculate from the year (2007) - so it will show 28



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Let say your
A1 8/16/1979
A2 8/16/2007

A3 =DATEDIF(A1,A2,"y")

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ie: the birthday is August 16, 1979 if we calculate from (today) it will
say 27 but i want to calculate from the year (2007) - so it will show 28

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