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    Looking to add some text in with a formula

    Hello all,
    I have two formulas I'm using to determine years of service & years in grade.

    YOS - =IF(H4<>"",DATEDIF(H4,TODAY(),"m")/12,"")

    YIG - =IF(H6<>"",DATEDIF(H6,TODAY(),"m")/12,"N/A")

    Both H4 & H6 are hire date & promotion date. I'd like to add "Yrs" to the end of my formula, so that it looks like this: "23.18 Yrs" instead of just "23.18".

    Any ideas? I tried....I'm quickly running out of hair!


    Thanx....LT

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    You mean, like this?

    =IF(H4<>"",DATEDIF(H4,TODAY(),"m")/12&" Yrs","")

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    =IF(H6<>"",DATEDIF(H6,TODAY(),"m")/12&" Yrs","N/A")
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    Thanx for the reply,
    The one for YOS worked, but it's giving me 13 decimals, I need 2.

    The one for YIG comes up "FALSE".

    LT

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    tRY:

    =IF(H4<>"",ROUND(DATEDIF(H4,TODAY(),"m")/12,2)&" Yrs","")

    AND

    =IF(H6<>"",ROUND(DATEDIF(H6,TODAY(),"m")/12,2)&" Yrs","N/A")

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    These two worked just fine, thank you!


    LT

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    Hello LT,

    DATEDIF with "m" only counts the whole months so you are effectively counting in 12ths of a year so it would seem odd, to me, to show the result to 2 decimal places.

    For example if an employee has 1 day short of 10 years service then your formula will give "9.92 Yrs". The next day it jumps to "10 Yrs"....and it remains on that figure for a month.

    You could get a more accurate figure, perhaps, by using YEARFRAC function from Analysis ToolPak, i.e.

    =IF(H4<>"",ROUND(YEARFRAC(TODAY(),H4,1),2)&" Yrs","")

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