You might like to look at this follow-up post from Lamp, in which he
asked for advice about totalling the years, months and days:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...d108ef2f165444

Of course, his layout is different to yours, in that he kept the
years, months and days in separate columns.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On May 17, 5:56*pm, kathi wrote:
I have an excell spreadsheet that does this in two ways....
1) *=A2-A1 then format the cell to custom typing in yy " years, " mm "
months, " dd " days"
OR
2) =DATEDIF(A2,B2,"y") & " years, " & DATEDIF(A2,B2,"ym") & " months, " &
DATEDIF(A2,B2,"md") & " days"

My problem is that now I need to total all of those results into a TOTAL
YEARS SPENT *



"lampatmyfeet" wrote:
I need to compute the number of years, months and days between dates. *After
doing so: *if days = 15 then add 1 to month and days becomes 0, then if
months 9 add 1 to year and then months becomes 0.

I will need to do this for several rows and them sum up the individual columns

My format is as follows:

* A * * * * * *B * * * * *C * * * * D * * *E * * * * * *F * * * * * * G
Date 1 * *thru * *Date 2 * * = * * *yy * * * * mm * * * * *dd * *
Date 3 * *thru * *Date 4 * * = * * *yy * * * * mm * * * * *dd
.
.
.
* * * TOTAL * * * * * * * * * * * * * * YY * * * * *MM * * * * * DD

the numbers is columns E,F & G are the differances between dates 2 and 1
Date X is formated at follows mm/dd/yyyy

I have tried several formulas but seem to leave out some component. *My
latest iteration for computing years is
=YEAR(C9)-YEAR(A9)-IF(OR(MONTH(C9)<MONTH(A9),AND(MONTH(C9)=MONTH(A9), DAY(C9*)<DAY(A9))),1,0)&""
but this formula will not allow me to total the column and the problem is
the same for the months and day columns.

Any help?
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