Need Formula for calulating age from birthdate from current date. I have used
=VALUE((2005)-YEAR(birthdate)), but this gives me the age of year as of end
of 2005. I need formula to calulate age as of today's date or by current
month. I want to show the age in the cell next to the birthdate without
using a date reference from another cell.

Thanks.

Try using: DATEDIF
(no documentation in most Excel versions HELP)
look in he
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm
Michael Avidan
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"YUMBUG" wrote:

Need Formula for calulating age from birthdate from current date. I have used
=VALUE((2005)-YEAR(birthdate)), but this gives me the age of year as of end
of 2005. I need formula to calulate age as of today's date or by current
month. I want to show the age in the cell next to the birthdate without
using a date reference from another cell.

Thanks.

YUMBUG wrote...
Need Formula for calulating age from birthdate from current date. I have used
=VALUE((2005)-YEAR(birthdate)), but this gives me the age of year as of end
of 2005. I need formula to calulate age as of today's date or by current
month. I want to show the age in the cell next to the birthdate without
using a date reference from another cell.

=YEAR(TODAY()-birthdate)-YEAR(0)

would be one way using only documented function calls. Using the
usually undocumented DATEDIF requires something like

=DATEDIF(birthdate,TODAY(),"Y")

Thank you.

"Harlan Grove" wrote:

YUMBUG wrote...
Need Formula for calulating age from birthdate from current date. I have used
=VALUE((2005)-YEAR(birthdate)), but this gives me the age of year as of end
of 2005. I need formula to calulate age as of today's date or by current
month. I want to show the age in the cell next to the birthdate without
using a date reference from another cell.

=YEAR(TODAY()-birthdate)-YEAR(0)

would be one way using only documented function calls. Using the
usually undocumented DATEDIF requires something like

=DATEDIF(birthdate,TODAY(),"Y")