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How To Calculate Age in Excel

The document describes how to calculate age in Excel using the DATEDIF formula. DATEDIF calculates the number of years, months, or days between two dates. To calculate age in years, the formula is =DATEDIF(start date, TODAY(), "y"). This will return the number of full years between the start date and today's date.

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How To Calculate Age in Excel

The document describes how to calculate age in Excel using the DATEDIF formula. DATEDIF calculates the number of years, months, or days between two dates. To calculate age in years, the formula is =DATEDIF(start date, TODAY(), "y"). This will return the number of full years between the start date and today's date.

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How to calculate age in Excel

Excel 2016
To calculate the age of a person, a pet, a project, or even some device, you need to
compute a number of complete years. The issue is that it doesn't seem enough to
calculate a year's difference. Excel proposes a very useful formula that can help you
to calculate that very fast.

The formula DATEDIF calculates days, months or years between two dates:

= DATEDIF (<start date>, <end date>, unit)

The parameter unit can be:

 "Y" - The number of full years in the period.

To calculate an age:

= DATEDIF (<start date>, TODAY (), "y")

Note: The formula TODAY () returns the current date. Sure, you can enter the
end date to calculate age, not for the current date.

 "YM" - The difference in months between <start date> and <end date>
ignoring years. So, it looks like Excel changes a year for <start date> to the
same as in <end date> and calculates the difference in days.

For example:

= DATEDIF (<start date>, TODAY (), "ym"):

 "MD" - The difference in days between <start date> and <end date>
ignoring months and years. So, it looks like Excel changes year and month for
<start date> to the same as in <end date> and calculates the difference in
days.

For example:

= DATEDIF (<start date>, TODAY (), "md"):

Note: You can add IF to ignore months and days with 0:

= IF (<comparison>, <result if comparison is TRUE>, <result if comparison


is FALSE>)

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