Tom’s Tutorials for Excel: How old are you? Undocumented DATEDIF

Tom’s Tutorials for Excel: How old are you? Undocumented DATEDIF.
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To see your (or someone else’s) age in years, months, and days with the undocumented DATEDIF function:

• In cell A1 enter the date of birth.

• In cell A2 enter the function =TODAY()

• In some other cell, enter this formula:

=DATEDIF(A1,A2,"Y")&" years, "&DATEDIF(A1,A2,"ym")&" months, "&DATEDIF(A1,A2,"md")&" days"
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One comment on “Tom’s Tutorials for Excel: How old are you? Undocumented DATEDIF
  1. Crystal says:

    Hi Tom, adding on … my favorite date calculation (doesn’t need DateDif): find out how many days you have been alive: =A2-A1 ~Crystal * have an awesome day 🙂

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