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Old May 12th, 2010, 09:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
C
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Default How do I create formula to calc difference in dates?

Hi I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I tried the
formula listed here and a few others and I can seem to get the right result.
I need a column to calculate age. I have todays date in G17 and the DOB in G3.

"T. Valko" wrote:

Try this:

E16 = start date
F16 = end date

=SUMPRODUCT(--(DAY(ROW(INDIRECT(E16&":"&F16)))=20))

That will count how many 20th of the months there are from a start date to
an end date (inclusive).

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"VSlaybaugh" wrote in message
...
I have tried this function but am having trouble with it returning the
right
value. I have an end-date of 1/20/2010 (in cell F16) and a start-date of
2/11/2009 (in cell E16). I'm trying to calculate how many automatic
monthly
transfers there will be on the 20th of each month but the function is
returning a value of 11 when it should return a value of 12. The first
transfer will be 2/20/2009 and the last transfer will be 1/20/2010.a total
of
12 transfers.

"David Biddulph" wrote:

I hope that Dec 2008 - Jan 2006 is 35, rather than 23. :-)

An alternative to DATEDIF would be
=MONTH(A1)-MONTH(B1)+12*(YEAR(A1)-YEAR(B1))
Note that if you have different dates within the start and end months,
you'll get different results from the 2 formulae.
End of Jan to beginning of Feb gives a 1 month difference with the
original
=MONTH(A1)-MONTH(B1) and with my extension thereto, but DATEDIF counts
completed months (with various questions when months are of unequal
length).
--
David Biddulph

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:37:01 -0800, Mike

wrote:

=MONTH(A1)-MONTH(B1)

That works when the two months are in the same year, but what if they
are
in
different years? For example January 2008-September 2007 = -8, but
should
equal 4. Or December 2008-January 2006 = 11, but should equal 23.

Use the undocumented DATEDIF function:

=DATEDIF(B1,A1,"m")

(The first date must be the earlier date).


See http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/datedif.aspx for documentation.

--ron






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Old May 12th, 2010, 10:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
Gord Dibben
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Default How do I create formula to calc difference in dates?

=DATEDIF(G3,G17,"y") & "years," & DATEDIF(G3,G17,"ym") & "months,"&
DATEDIF(G3,G17,"md") & "days,"

For more help on the undocumented DATEDIF function see Chip Pearson's site.

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


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 12 May 2010 13:43:01 -0700, C wrote:

Hi I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I tried the
formula listed here and a few others and I can seem to get the right result.
I need a column to calculate age. I have todays date in G17 and the DOB in G3.

"T. Valko" wrote:

Try this:

E16 = start date
F16 = end date

=SUMPRODUCT(--(DAY(ROW(INDIRECT(E16&":"&F16)))=20))

That will count how many 20th of the months there are from a start date to
an end date (inclusive).

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"VSlaybaugh" wrote in message
...
I have tried this function but am having trouble with it returning the
right
value. I have an end-date of 1/20/2010 (in cell F16) and a start-date of
2/11/2009 (in cell E16). I'm trying to calculate how many automatic
monthly
transfers there will be on the 20th of each month but the function is
returning a value of 11 when it should return a value of 12. The first
transfer will be 2/20/2009 and the last transfer will be 1/20/2010.a total
of
12 transfers.

"David Biddulph" wrote:

I hope that Dec 2008 - Jan 2006 is 35, rather than 23. :-)

An alternative to DATEDIF would be
=MONTH(A1)-MONTH(B1)+12*(YEAR(A1)-YEAR(B1))
Note that if you have different dates within the start and end months,
you'll get different results from the 2 formulae.
End of Jan to beginning of Feb gives a 1 month difference with the
original
=MONTH(A1)-MONTH(B1) and with my extension thereto, but DATEDIF counts
completed months (with various questions when months are of unequal
length).
--
David Biddulph

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:37:01 -0800, Mike

wrote:

=MONTH(A1)-MONTH(B1)

That works when the two months are in the same year, but what if they
are
in
different years? For example January 2008-September 2007 = -8, but
should
equal 4. Or December 2008-January 2006 = 11, but should equal 23.

Use the undocumented DATEDIF function:

=DATEDIF(B1,A1,"m")

(The first date must be the earlier date).


See http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/datedif.aspx for documentation.

--ron







 




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