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Converting days to Year and Month
Hello,
I've been trying to convert number of days into years and months.
I've looked up some formula which tells me that I can use =DATEDIF(0,(cell with no. of days),"Y") to generate the number of years there are. However, this doesnt work on excel when I tried it. There was an error message that suggested there were too many arguments in the equation.
Does anyone know of any alternatives instead?
Thanks so much in advance!
7 Replies
- Microsoft Excel's TEXT function can help you to convert a date to its corresponding month name or weekday name easily. In a blank cell, please enter this formula =TEXT(A2, "mmmm"), in this case in cell C2. , and press the Enter key. And then drag this cell's AutoFill handle to the range as you need.
Initial question was like
We spent 456 days, how many full months is it?
Perhaps TEXT() is not very suitable here.
vicneoh The syntax for this would be:
=DATEDIF(<start date>, <end date>,"option")where "option" is Y, M or D.
In general it works, e.g.
=DATEDIF(0,365,"Y") returns 0 and =DATEDIF(0,367,"Y") returns 1
If not full years, when like
=YEARFRAC(1,365) returns 0.9972
But above is for Windows, not sure about Mac with it's shifted dates scale.
- OHHH. I just realised it was an error in my syntax! It works too, on my mac! Thanks very much for the help!
Thanks for this! I realise the issue is with my mac. Tried it on windows and it works..hmm.
Didn't even realise you could use DATEDIF that way. Hence, my response using start and end dates. Tried yours and can conform its the same on a Mac.
