calculate age using BD and (TODAY)

I would like to have the current age calculated in an excel spread sheet and
am having trouble with the formula. Any help appreciated. TIm

=YEAR(B1)-YEAR(A1)
will give you age in whole number.

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Bill Ridgeway
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"Tim" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I would like to have the current age calculated in an excel spread sheet
>and
> am having trouble with the formula. Any help appreciated. TIm

"Bill Ridgeway" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> =YEAR(B1)-YEAR(A1)
> will give you age in whole number.

Not quite. Suppose the DoB was 31st December? The *age* would be a year
out for all but one day of the year.

The DATEDIF function will calculate the age. DATEDIF is only in XL2000 Help
but Chip Pearson has a page on his website about it:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm

=DATEDIF(A1,B1,"y")

Note that it takes the arguments: earliest date then later date

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