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John Albertini
Nov 21, 2017Copper Contributor
pre-1900 dates
I can find no help on how to tell Excel to properly format and calculate dates before 1900. I want to calculate age at death and have birth and death dates in columns. But Excel does not recognize ...
sandi saputra
Nov 24, 2017Copper Contributor
John Albertini Sounds interesting!
As we know Excel doesn't recognize date before 1900, but here I have a solution for you, it works perfectly!. using the formula you can calculate any date even year 1!.
It's not original from me, I found it here http://tips-rumus-excel.blogspot.co.id/2015/01/dates-before-1900.html but that's Indonesian version, so I modify some of the formula to English Version (such as "Year" in Indonesian is "Tahun" and so on.