![]() For whole years, use the ‘DATEDIF’ function: This returns the number of whole years between two dates and ignores partial years.There are two main ways for calculating years between dates in Excel: How to Calculate Years Between Two Dates… Therefore another use is it saves you from having to use an online years calculator! There many uses for calculating years, months and days between two dates, there’s even dedicated websites as online calculators! Whether this is for important dates, birthdays or other examples as the extract from my template below shows. For example and as shown in the template provided, this would work for a ‘Days since last accident’ Simpson’s style, ‘How many sleeps until Christmas’, ‘ Years until NASA land on the Moon again‘, or even ‘Years and Months until my mortgage is paid‘! The ‘DATEDIF’ will allow you to present this in years, months, and/or days. Countdown to Future Date: Using the techniques below, you can countdown to a future date by projecting a date in the future.For example, sales transactions aligned to dates can be easily categorised by year using the ‘YEAR()’ function. Extract Years: Extracting years from a date can be very helpful in summarising data or using in onward calculations.This might be helpful for example in managing retirements, equality monitoring, or as the first step in grouping customers into age categories using a series of Excel ‘IF’ functions. Age from Birthday: By using date of birth as the start date, and Excel’s ‘TODAY’ function, you can easily calculate someone’s age.Years of Service: You might want to calculate someone’s length of service from their start date to today or when they left.There are many reasons why you might want to calculate years between dates or extract years from dates in Excel. Why Calculate Years Between Dates in Excel? ![]() Here’s a snapshot from the video and template on exactly how to do that, using the ‘YEAR’ function: ![]() By the way, if you just want to know the even easier way of extracting the year from a date, that’s included too. ![]()
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