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I've been trying to figure how to format cells to indicate duration of time in a Years, Months, Days format (as in col. G of my exported sheet), but am getting nowhere. Is this really as hard as I'm trying to make it?
I've been trying to figure how to format cells to indicate duration of time in a Years, Months, Days format (as in col. G of my exported sheet), but am getting nowhere. Is this really as hard as I'm trying to make it?
Have a look here: https://support.office.com/en-gb/art...5-46100a162f38
There have been discussions about this before on the forum and you should be aware that leap years can slightly skew results.
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In G2, copied down:
=DATEDIF(F2,TODAY(),"y")&" Years, "&DATEDIF(F2,TODAY(),"ym")&" Months, "&DATEDIF(F2,TODAY(),"md")&" Days"
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Temporary addition of accented to illustrate ongoing problem to the TT: L? fh?ile P?draig sona dhaoibh
Hi all- This removes zeroed periods:PS forgot to mention, I put TODAY() in $L$1. It's a volatile function, not a great idea to be re-calcing a hundred instances.
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Last edited by leelnich; 11-17-2017 at 03:37 PM.
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I think this one will close to what OP shows as a results
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Last edited by popipipo; 11-17-2017 at 02:21 PM.
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