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Is there some way that just by passing over a cell in Excel it will
automatically insert the current date.. I think I've done this with past versions of Excel.. but I can't seem to remember how I did it and I can't seem to find any documentation on how to automate this task -- Randy |
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I'm not sure what you mean by passing over a cell. If you select the cell
and press CTRL+; (semi-colon), Excel inserts today's date in the cell. If you put the formula: =TODAY(), that will put today's date in the cell every time the worksheet is recalculated. CTRL+: (colon) puts the current system time in the cell "Randy" wrote in message ... Is there some way that just by passing over a cell in Excel it will automatically insert the current date.. I think I've done this with past versions of Excel.. but I can't seem to remember how I did it and I can't seem to find any documentation on how to automate this task -- Randy |
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Maybe I wasn't clear.. and when when read my question over I could see how I
may get the wrong answer.. let me attempt to be a little more clear.. When I pass over a cell.. I mean like <tab through a series of cells and when I go through a 'date' cell it automatically inserts the current date.. I think I've been able to do it before.. I know about the CTRL+;.. and about the TODAY() functions.. maybe this function really isn't possible.. please let me know -- Randy "Dave Thomas" wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by passing over a cell. If you select the cell and press CTRL+; (semi-colon), Excel inserts today's date in the cell. If you put the formula: =TODAY(), that will put today's date in the cell every time the worksheet is recalculated. CTRL+: (colon) puts the current system time in the cell "Randy" wrote in message ... Is there some way that just by passing over a cell in Excel it will automatically insert the current date.. I think I've done this with past versions of Excel.. but I can't seem to remember how I did it and I can't seem to find any documentation on how to automate this task -- Randy |
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You don't specify any particular cells that are "date" cells. This event code will stick a date into any cell in column E as you Tab into column E Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range) On Error GoTo enditall Application.EnableEvents = False If Target.Cells.Column = 5 Then n = Target.Row Excel.Range("E" & n).Value = Now End If enditall: Application.EnableEvents = True End Sub Can be re-written for an array of cells you Tab to. This is sheet event code. Right-click on the sheet tab and "View Code". Copy/paste code into that sheet module. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:32:03 -0700, Randy wrote: Maybe I wasn't clear.. and when when read my question over I could see how I may get the wrong answer.. let me attempt to be a little more clear.. When I pass over a cell.. I mean like <tab through a series of cells and when I go through a 'date' cell it automatically inserts the current date.. I think I've been able to do it before.. I know about the CTRL+;.. and about the TODAY() functions.. maybe this function really isn't possible.. please let me know |
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