The formula does not know you are looking to set it up as a MONTH | I'm not sure if this is the best solution, but I've added a precise day to the computation, which I assume shouldn't affect other calculations because it is shorter than the formula assumes a day to be |
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00069418 and when combined with ROUNDDOWN, gives 70 | 1-12 and months in the 2nd column Jan-Dec then use vlookups so that the function can convert the numbers into the correct text |
You will calculate the incorrect age for people born in a leap year | If you don't consider that in the formula when you forecast you will be off by a few days |
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If I recall correctly, but datedif wasn't the issue regarding leap years | One should be careful using Method C, with the YEARFRAC function, because of rounding error in computations involving leap years |
I was able to continue the formula down the entire column which is what I needed | It produces the correct answer eg 9 |
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why do you put spaces in your examples when Excel NEVER accepts spaces?? The issue is that a computed "age" appears in each cell despite the fact that I have not filled in a birthdate | Method D is exactly what I've been looking for, minus the day portion easily removed |
I had only suggested the use of YEARFRAC instead of DATEDIF function which i wasn't getting on my Excel.