When you are working on a chronology, it is often useful to calculate the interval between two dates. The Age and Interval Calculator does just that, and lets you copy and paste the results into your document.
Step | Action | What to expect and other comments |
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. |
4 | 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. |
5 | 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. |
6 | Press Copy. | The text in the Interval box is copied to the clipboard. |
7 | Click somewhere in the document. | You do not need to close the Calculator. |
8 | 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. |
9 | Experiment with other date formats such as 25 12 1950, 22/5/52, Jul 7 80, 1982-06-25, 7th jun84. | Chronolator accepts a variety of date formats, just as it does when you enter a date in a chronology. |
10 | Close SampleCompositeChronologyHealth without saving changes. |
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In this exercise, you have learnt that: