Name

YEAR

Synopsis

Use this function to return the year portion of a date. For example, if the date is 4/22/92, this function will return a value of 1992.

To Calculate

=YEAR(Serial_Number)

Example

This function is typically used to determine the year value of a date in another cell. The value in the cell can either be a typical date value, such as 5/16/1998, or a serial number. The HOUR function covered in this chaper has an example illustrating how YEAR can get the year value from a serial number.

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