1

Read Chronolator Toolbars and About the Exercises if you have not already done so.

2

Open SampleCompositeChronologyHealth.

3

Press Tools > Age Calculator :

The calculator works out the difference between Date 1 and Date 2.

If you have not used it before in this document, Date 1 has today’s date in it, and Date 2 is blank.

If you have used it before and saved the document, the last two dates you used will be shown.

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Type 1 2 into the Date 2 box.

Notice that as soon as Chronolator can interpret what you type as a date, it tells you its interpretation to the right of the box and a Copy  button appears. In the example here, Chronolator has interpreted 1 2 as the first of February in the current year.

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Carry on typing, so the box now says 1 2 3.

Chronolator has interpreted 1 2 3 as the first of February in the year 2003.

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Press Copy.

The text in the Interval box is copied to the clipboard.

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Click somewhere in the document.

You do not need to close the Calculator.

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Paste the clipboard in your usual way: e.g. by pressing Ctrl + V, or by pressing Paste on the Home tab:

The text is pasted into the document at the position you chose:

It is now just like any other document text and you can edit it as you please - perhaps to change the full detail 16 years, 11 months, 30 days (62082 days) to something shorter like 16 years, 11 months.

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Experiment with other date formats such as 25 12 1950, 22/5/52, Jul 7 80, 1982-06-25, 7th jun84.

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Close SampleCompositeChronologyHealth without saving changes.