Calculate length of service in years and months in Excel.Q. Is there an easy way to calculate how long in years and months the employees have been working for my company? A. Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials. can do that, as long as you've listed all the employees in a database. If so, place them in an Excel worksheet with their start date in one cell and end date (which would be the current date, I assume) in an adjacent cell. Then insert this formula (where the start dates are in the D column and the end dates in the E column): =DATEDIF(D2,E2,"y") & " years, " & DATEDIF(D2,E2,"ym") & " months ". Here's what it looks like in Excel (color added for clarity): [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Be sure to format the D and E columns to display dates (see screenshot See screen shot. below). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] STANLEY ZAROWIN, a former Jof A senior editor, is now a contributing editor A contributing editor is a magazine job title that varies in responsibilities. Most often, a contributing editor is a freelancer who has proven ability and readership draw. to the magazine. His e-mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address is zarowin@mindspring.com. |
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