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Jennifer Clark
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Apr 23, 2018
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IF Statement Concerns

I am trying to get the date/time that a cell changes but not have it autoupdate....   Using this: =IF(B2 <> "",NOW(),"Not Checked Out") works until you update the next row an hour later then everyt...
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  • IngeborgHawighorst's avatar
    IngeborgHawighorst
    Apr 24, 2018

    Hello,

     

    what you want to achieve cannot be done with the NOW() formula. It will always update to the current date and time. If you want a time stamp that does not change, then you will need to use VBA. 

     

    This code will put a time stamp into column B when a cell in column A is changed by the user. Copy the code, then right-click the Sheet, select "View code" and paste the code into the code window.

     

    Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("A:A")) Is Nothing Then
    Target.Offset(0, 1) = Now
End If
End Sub

     

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PCDavis61618
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Aug 02, 2020

Thank you IngeborgHawighorst . This little piece of code solved a perplexing problem for me. A next step is to save the workbook as a macro-enabled workbook (.xlsm). I did not do that and when I reopened the file, code was gone. Luckily I found it again, along with a post with the save info. I backed up the code to a text file for safe keeping.

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IngeborgHawighorst
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Aug 05, 2020

PCDavis61618  When you write VBA code in Excel that does not yet have any code, and then save the file, you will see a big, fat warning that VBA code can only be saved in macro-enabled files and you are prompted to save the file as a macro-enabled file. If you just ignore that warning, your code will be lost, of course. 

 

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