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How to convert months to years and months in Excel?

In Excel worksheet, have you ever tried to convert the number of months to years and months? For example, 56 months equals 4 years and 8 months as the left screenshot shown. In this article, I will talk about how to solve this job in Excel.

Convert months to years and months with formula


Convert months to years and months with formula

To convert the months to years and months, the below formula can help you.

Please copy and paste the following formula into a blank cell:

=INT(A2/12) & " years and " &MOD(A2,12)& " months"

And then, drag the fill handle down to the cells that you want to contain this formula, and the month numbers have been converted to years and months as you need, see screenshot:


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How to convert months in to year. For example months number stating 1 to 60, I need years to be 1, 2,3,4, and 5. ex: All Months from number 25 to 36 should show as 3.
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How do I covert months into years and complete months? For example, the formula above converts 13 months into 1 year 0.66666666 months, but I would like this rounding up to 1 year 1 month.
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how to convert 3 years 11 months 24 days into 3 years 12 months format in excel
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61 years 04 months
how do we convert the opposite way???
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Hello, Edward
To convert the years and months to months, please apply the below formula:
=VALUE(LEFT(C11,FIND(" ", C11)-1))*12+VALUE(MID(C11,FIND("years ", C11)+6,FIND(" months",C11)-FIND("years ", C11)-6))

Please change the cell reference - C11 to your need.

Please try, hope it can help you!
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