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Showing posts with label Microsoft Excel. Show all posts

Monday, 4 February 2013

Age Calculation

Method-1 :

You can calculate a persons age based on their birthday and todays date.
The calculation uses the DATEDIF() function.
The DATEDIF() is not documented in Excel 5, 7 or 97, but it is in 2000.
(Makes you wonder what else Microsoft forgot to tell us!)
Birth date : 1-Jan-60
Years lived : 53  =DATEDIF(C8,TODAY(),"y")
and the months : 1  =DATEDIF(C8,TODAY(),"ym")
and the days : 3  =DATEDIF(C8,TODAY(),"md")
You can put this all together in one calculation, which creates a text version.
Age is 53 Years, 1 Months and 3 Days
 ="Age is "&DATEDIF(C8,TODAY(),"y")&" Years, "&DATEDIF(C8,TODAY(),"ym")&" Months and "&DATEDIF(C8,TODAY(),"md")&" Days"

Method-2 :

This method gives you an age which may potentially have decimal places representing the months.
If the age is 20.5, the .5 represents 6 months.
Birth date : 1-Jan-60
Age is : 53.10  =(TODAY()-C23)/365.25


AutoSum Shortcut Key

Instead of using the AutoSum button from the toolbar,
you can press Alt and = to achieve the same result.
Try it here :
Move to a blank cell in the Total row or column, then press Alt and =.
or
Select a row, column or all cells and then press Alt and =.
Jan Feb Mar Total
North 10 50 90  
South 20 60 100  
East 30 70 200  
West 40 80 300  
Total