Chip

Thanks for your reply. I have a problem, though! The file that I am working
on is an imported .txt and the macro crashes with a Run-time error 5 -
Invalid procedure call or argument.
The line I'm trying to use is this:
Range("A2").Value =
ActiveWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties("Creation Date")
and I'm wondering if it's because the sheet is not technically a workbook.
The macro imports a .txt file, deletes junk from it and formats some of the
columns and I need to get the creation date of the txt file.
Thanks.
Andy.


"Chip Pearson" wrote in message
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Try code like

Debug.Print Format(ThisWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties("Cre ation
Date") - 1, "ddmmyy")


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


<Andy wrote in message ...
Sorry - I'm in England! 01/03/2006 is the first of March (over here!) and
28/02/06 is the day before it!

Cheers.
Andy.

"Chip Pearson" wrote in message
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You can use BuiltInDocumentProperties to get the creation date. E.g.,

ThisWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties("Creation Date")

How do you get 280206 from 1/3/2006?


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com




<Andy wrote in message ...
Hi all
Thanks for reading this!
I'm trying to get the day before the creation date of a file into a
cell - or to set it as its sheet name. One small addition is that I
need it as text. So if the creation date is 06/02/06, I need to cell to
be 050206 (as text), if the creation date is 01/03/06 then the cell
would be 280206. I've got a macro that formats column A as Text and
then fills it with the sheet name, but I'd like to do it all
automatically.
Thanks in advance.