formula to calculate exact years, months and days seperately between two dates?

Can you give an example? With start date in A2 and end date in B2 you can use DATEDIF to give years, months and days altogether

=DATEDIF(A2,B2,"y")&" years "&DATEDIF(A2,B2,"ym")&" months "&DATEDIF(A2,B2,"md")&" days"

or do you want those in separate cells? If so just use each DATEDIF element on its own

Are the dates you are working with, actually dates/values, or text that looks like dates? test with =isnumber(cell-ref) FALSE means text

click on the cell with the formula in it, and press F2. look at where the references are pointing. Are they all where they need to be, based on where you're data is? If not, adjust as needed.

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Originally Posted by suweg

but unfortunately result was :

#NUM!

#NUM! error implies that A2> B2, in DATEDIF(A2,B2,"y") and similar A2 needs to be the earlier of the two dates

Thanks DDL, I didnt think of that

Note that in DATEDIF (earlier date, later date,...)

as pointed out it needs to be
=DATEDIF(H3,I3,"y")&" years "&DATEDIF(H3,I3,"ym")&" months "&DATEDIF(H3,I3,"md")&" days"
gives
30 years 5 months 8 days