My ultimate goal is to create an ID that will always be unique
 

One way of making unique ID numbers:

Private Declare Function CoCreateGuid Lib "ole32" (id As Any) As Long

Function CreateGUID() As String

Dim btID(0 To 15) As Byte
Dim i As Long

If CoCreateGuid(btID(0)) = 0 Then
For i = 0 To 15
CreateGUID = CreateGUID + IIf(btID(i) < 16, "0", "") +
Hex$(btID(i))
Next
CreateGUID = Left$(CreateGUID, 8) & "-" & _
Mid$(CreateGUID, 9, 4) & "-" & _
Mid$(CreateGUID, 13, 4) & "-" & _
Mid$(CreateGUID, 17, 4) & "-" & _
Right$(CreateGUID, 12)
Else
CreateGUID = -1 'error result
End If

End Function


Sub test()

MsgBox CreateGUID()

End Sub


RBS


"Striker" wrote in message
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My ultimate goal is to create an ID that will always be unique in column
"F". In that column I placed the following formula
=A2&""&B2&""&E2&""&C2.
I will need to do this on a daily basis, so would like to generate code to
do it for me at the push of a button. This can be any combination of
things. If you have a better idea to make a Unique ID column value, I'm
listening. However it MUST be unique even if the same data comes in
tomorrow, which is why I'm adding the date column.

(Spreadsheet Copy Attached) I also included a image of the sheet, in case
you're worried about a virus. Don't worry I changed all the numbers so
they
are not real numbers. This sheet is being passed to me, and I have to do
my
thing with it. I am currently even adding the date field and column
manually. So an added benefit would be to add that in code and make it a
text date like it is currently formatted so any leading "0" shows up.

My problem is the sheet can be up to 600 transactions, and I/I'm not sure
how to loop thru to find the last cell with good data.

So I'm Inserting a date column and populating with today's date as text
formatted as 051106
Inserting a UniqueID column and populating with a Unique ID down to the
last
cell with data (My problem, how to find the last cell with data when some
cells don't have data?)


Thanks for any help.