Hey everyone. I know most of the basic stuff about Excel, but I have
never used Macros before and I believe that is what I need for this
particular problem.

What I need is some way that I can run a macro or whatever, and if I
run the macro it will update a field on the spreadsheet. But I don't
want it to update every time the user opens the spreadsheet, only if
they run the macro.

What I want the macro to display is the Year Month Day Hour Minute
Second of whatever date/time it is when the macro is ran. And I need
all of the values to be 2 digits. So if it was 2:33.54am January 1,
1994 and I ran the macro the field would be updated and say:
940101023354 formatted yymmddhhmmss

If anyone knows how to do this I would greatly appreciate some
instruction.

Thanks very much in advance.

Ryan M. Murphy


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Ryan,

So why not use "=Now()" and format the output to "yymmddhhmmss" (all
without the quotes)?

Sub DateMacro()
Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Value = Format(Now,"yymmddhhmmss")
End Sub

change the sheet and cell to suit.

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Hey everyone. I know most of the basic stuff about Excel, but I have
never used Macros before and I believe that is what I need for this
particular problem.

What I need is some way that I can run a macro or whatever, and if I
run the macro it will update a field on the spreadsheet. But I don't
want it to update every time the user opens the spreadsheet, only if
they run the macro.

What I want the macro to display is the Year Month Day Hour Minute
Second of whatever date/time it is when the macro is ran. And I need
all of the values to be 2 digits. So if it was 2:33.54am January 1,
1994 and I ran the macro the field would be updated and say:
940101023354 formatted yymmddhhmmss

If anyone knows how to do this I would greatly appreciate some
instruction.

Thanks very much in advance.

Ryan M. Murphy


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Sub TimeStamp()
With ActiveCell
.Value = Now
.NumberFormat = "yymmddhhmmss"
End With
End Sub

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Hey everyone. I know most of the basic stuff about Excel, but I have
never used Macros before and I believe that is what I need for this
particular problem.

What I need is some way that I can run a macro or whatever, and if I
run the macro it will update a field on the spreadsheet. But I don't
want it to update every time the user opens the spreadsheet, only if
they run the macro.

What I want the macro to display is the Year Month Day Hour Minute
Second of whatever date/time it is when the macro is ran. And I need
all of the values to be 2 digits. So if it was 2:33.54am January 1,
1994 and I ran the macro the field would be updated and say:
940101023354 formatted yymmddhhmmss

If anyone knows how to do this I would greatly appreciate some
instruction.

Thanks very much in advance.

Ryan M. Murphy


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This enters the date & time into cell A1 of Sheet1,
Hope this is what your after.

Sub DateMacro()

Dim myNow As String

myNow = Format(Now(), "YYMMDDhhmmss")

With Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1")
.NumberFormat = "@"
.Value = myNow
End With

End Sub

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Thanks very much for the help everyone. I got exactly what I needed.


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If anyone is still checking this post. Another quick question. Is ther
a way to make this macro run when the spreadsheet is opened? The logi
behind it has changed a little bit. I got it working to meed th
changed requirements but if possible it would be great to have it ru
when the spreadsheet opens.

Thanks for any and all help.

Rya

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FROM THE VISUAL BASIC EDITOR. IN THE PROJECT PANE ON THE LEFT CLICK ON THIS
WORKBOOK (ASSUMING YOU ONLY HAVE ONE PROJECT OPEN). IN THE RIGHT HAND PANE
YOU SHOULD HAVE A COUPLE OF DROPDOWNS CHANGE THE FIRST FROM (GENERAL) TO
"WORKBOOK" AND THE SECOND TO "OPEN". PUT YOUR CODE IN WORKBOOK_OPEN SUB AND
THAT SHOULD DO IT.

"RyanMMurphy" wrote:


If anyone is still checking this post. Another quick question. Is there
a way to make this macro run when the spreadsheet is opened? The logic
behind it has changed a little bit. I got it working to meed the
changed requirements but if possible it would be great to have it run
when the spreadsheet opens.

Thanks for any and all help.

Ryan


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