I need to track information on a spreadsheet and need to know how long that
information has been lying there. Is there a timer or clock one can insert to
do this.

you could use th eworksheet's CHANGE event to add a timestamp to mark when
the value was entered.
right click the sheet tab *& go to the code page, add thsi:

Option Explicit

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
' check column B
If Target.Column = 2 Then
Target.Offset(0, -1).Value = Format(Now, "dd-mmm-yy hh:mm")
End If
End Sub

if you enter anything in column B it adds a timestamp to column A

"Robbie" wrote:

I need to track information on a spreadsheet and need to know how long that
information has been lying there. Is there a timer or clock one can insert to
do this.

The easiest way is to have an adjacent column that stores the time when
something is changed, along the lines of

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
Static prevValue

On Error GoTo ws_exit:
Application.EnableEvents = False
If Not Intersect(Target, Me.Range("K1:K34")) Is Nothing Then
With Target.Offset(0, 1)
.Value = Now
.NumberFormat = "dd mmm yyyy hh:mm:ss"
End With
End If

ws_exit:
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub

'This is worksheet event code, which means that it needs to be
'placed in the appropriate worksheet code module, not a standard
'code module. To do this, right-click on the sheet tab, select
'the View Code option from the menu, and paste the code in.



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HTH

RP
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"Robbie" wrote in message
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I need to track information on a spreadsheet and need to know how long
that
information has been lying there. Is there a timer or clock one can insert
to
do this.