Excel formulas

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11. Calculate Age from Given Birthday


=DATEDIF(A1,TODAY(),"y")&" Years "&DATEDIF(A1,TODAY(),"ym")&" Months
"&DATEDIF(A1,TODAY(),"md")&" Days"

12. Number to Date Format Conversion


If you have numbers like 010216 and you want to convert this to date format, then the
following formula can be used

=--TEXT(A1,"00\/00\/00") for 2 digits year

Note – Minimum 5 digits are needed for above formula to work

If you have numbers like 01022016 and you want to convert this to date format, then the
following formula can be used

=--TEXT(A1,"00\/00\/0000") for 4 digits year

Note – Minimum 7 digits are needed for above formula to work

13. Number to Time Format Conversion


If you have numbers like 1215 and you want to convert this to hh:mm format, then the
following formula can be used

=--TEXT(A1,"00\:00")

Note – Minimum 3 digits are needed for above formula to work

To convert to hh:mm:ss format

=--TEXT(A1,"00\:00\:00")


Note – Minimum 5 digits are needed for above formula to work

14. Count Cells Starting (or Ending) with a particular String



  1. Say you want to count all cells starting with C


=COUNTIF(A1:A10,"c*")

c* is case insensitive. Hence, it will count cells starting with both c or C.

Suppose you want to find all cells starting with Excel.

=COUNTIF(A1:A10,"excel*")
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