Default today's date - Excel 2000

[Abay]

How can I default to-day's date in one cell and the current time in another
for each row. I know I can press Cntrl + ; etc. but want the date to be
entered automatically.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Abay

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

=TODAY()

=NOW()

latter formatted as time or you'll get a date as well

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Peo Sjoblom

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[Abay]

Thank you .. but is there a way to have them default, so that when you tab
from cell to cell the date and time are entered are entered automatically.
I have created a form for data entry and would like the date and time (both
are fields in the form) entered automatically as the user tabs from one
field to the other.

Am a newbie more or less at Excel .. know I can do this in Access, & am
hoping it can work in Excel also.

Again many thanks for your help.

Abay

 

[Bob Phillips]

You can do this with VBA, this assumes you want it in columns G and H when
you select G

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
Const WS_RANGE As String = "G1:G1000"

On Error GoTo ws_exit:
Application.EnableEvents = False
If Not Intersect(Target, Me.Range(WS_RANGE)) Is Nothing Then
With Target
.Value = Format(Date, "dd mmm yyyy")
.Offset(0, 1).Value = Format(Now, "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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[Abay]

That worked great when entering data directly into the spread sheet, no luck
when entering data in the form .. <sigh> ..

Many thanks again for your help.

Abay