i am building a form in excel and i need to place a date next to a cell when
that cell has information entered into it. the problem is that every time the
sheet recalculates the date changes, i don't want this to happen but the
workbook still needs to recalculate as there are other formulas present. is
there a way to restrict the number of times a specific cell can recalculate?

Look he

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/timestamp.html

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"Dude3966" wrote in message ...
|i am building a form in excel and i need to place a date next to a cell when
| that cell has information entered into it. the problem is that every time the
| sheet recalculates the date changes, i don't want this to happen but the
| workbook still needs to recalculate as there are other formulas present. is
| there a way to restrict the number of times a specific cell can recalculate?

CTRL + ;(semi-colon) will produce a static date.

Or see Niek's post for event code from JE


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:24:05 -0800, Dude3966
wrote:

i am building a form in excel and i need to place a date next to a cell when
that cell has information entered into it. the problem is that every time the
sheet recalculates the date changes, i don't want this to happen but the
workbook still needs to recalculate as there are other formulas present. is
there a way to restrict the number of times a specific cell can recalculate?

Thaks very much the circular formula =IF(A1="","",IF(B1="",NOW(),B1)) was
spot on exactly what i was looking for.

"Niek Otten" wrote:

Look he

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/timestamp.html

--
Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"Dude3966" wrote in message ...
|i am building a form in excel and i need to place a date next to a cell when
| that cell has information entered into it. the problem is that every time the
| sheet recalculates the date changes, i don't want this to happen but the
| workbook still needs to recalculate as there are other formulas present. is
| there a way to restrict the number of times a specific cell can recalculate?