Correcting time input by users

[Greg H.]

I have a worksheet where employees will be entering in times. I do
caculations based on these times and I would like a way so if the user enters
inthe time like "10:00pm" that excel will correct it to display "10:00 pm".
Is there a way to check for this?

 

[Sandy Mann]

Would something like this do what you want?:

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
If Intersect(Target, Range("F:F")) Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub

If IsNumeric(Target) Then Exit Sub

If Right(UCase(Target.Value), 2) = "AM" Then _
Target.Value = Left(Target.Value, Len(Target.Value) - 2) & " AM"

If Right(UCase(Target.Value), 2) = "PM" Then _
Target.Value = Left(Target.Value, Len(Target.Value) - 2) & " PM"
End Sub

It also works for just 10pm

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[Sandy Mann]

Better make that:

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
If Intersect(Target, Range("F:F")) Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub

If IsNumeric(Target) Then Exit Sub

On Error GoTo GetOut

Application.EnableEvents = False

If Right(UCase(Target.Value), 2) = "AM" Then _
Target.Value = Left(Target.Value, Len(Target.Value) - 2) & " AM"

If Right(UCase(Target.Value), 2) = "PM" Then _
Target.Value = Left(Target.Value, Len(Target.Value) - 2) & " PM"
GetOut:
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub

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[Greg H.]

That is perfect. Thanks so much

Better make that:

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
If Intersect(Target, Range("F:F")) Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub

If IsNumeric(Target) Then Exit Sub

On Error GoTo GetOut

Application.EnableEvents = False

If Right(UCase(Target.Value), 2) = "AM" Then _
Target.Value = Left(Target.Value, Len(Target.Value) - 2) & " AM"

If Right(UCase(Target.Value), 2) = "PM" Then _
Target.Value = Left(Target.Value, Len(Target.Value) - 2) & " PM"
GetOut:
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub

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[Sandy Mann]

Glad that it worked for you, thanks for the feedback.

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[Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)]

If Right(UCase(Target.Value), 2) = "AM" Then _

Target.Value = Left(Target.Value, Len(Target.Value) - 2) & "
AM"

If Right(UCase(Target.Value), 2) = "PM" Then _
Target.Value = Left(Target.Value, Len(Target.Value) - 2) & "
PM"

I believe you can replace the above code lines with this single line...

Target.Value = CDate(Target.Value)

and it will successfully handle 10:00p and 10:00a also. Of course, it
returns the seconds as well, but the cell can be Custom Formatted to handle
that; or we could just do it in code...

Target.Value = Replace(CDate(Target.Value), ":00 ", " ")

Rick

 

[Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)]

Also, in thinking about it, instead of this test...

If IsNumeric(Target) Then Exit Sub

maybe this one would be more robust...

If Not IsDate(Target.Value) Then Exit Sub

Rick

 

[Sandy Mann]

Very good Rick. My XL97 doesn't like Replace being used like that but
something to remember when I become posh. <g>

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[Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)]

But the CDate worked in XL97, right?

As for the Replace function, you might be able to use one of the VB coded
functions on this page to duplicate the Replace function's capabilities...

http://www.xbeat.net/vbspeed/c_Replace.htm

You can find other VB coded functions for the other newer String functions
under the VB6 to VB5 column on this webpage...

http://www.xbeat.net/vbspeed/

Rick

 

[Sandy Mann]

Yes CDate worked fine.

Thanks for the links, I will check them out.

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