[mso] Re: Excel - Enter today's date?

Hi Dian

I can help with this one! (g) - you need the Today function.  Create a
cell (it can be a hidden cell if you don't want to display the date on the
sheet for any other reason) with the following function: =TODAY()

Then enter your date data details (argghh tongue twister!!) in their
respective columns, make sure they are formatted as date cells.  Then
click on the column headings and conditional format so that if your date
data is greater than [click on the cell with the +TODAY() function} the
background or text is coloured the way you want it.  It's dead easy and
really dynamic and functional (pardon the pun).

You can even get really clever and make another condition whereby if the
date has been passed by a certain factor the colour changes again!

Cool huh?

Hope you are well - you and I have been about as absent as one another
lately!

Anne
xxx

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Of Dian Chapman
Sent: 27 February 2004 07:18
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Subject: [mso] Excel - Enter today's date?


Okay...here's one last one and I'm giving up on this tonight and getting
my butt to bed!<g>

Is there any way...or how would I get it to work with VBA...do have the
current date always appear in a particular cell?

I'd like one cell on a sheet to display today's date. Well, actually, what
I REALLY want is for conditional formatting to appear if the date in a
column is passed a certain date. So I'm guessing that, if I get one cell
to display the current date, I can set up formatting to make the date in
the other col display in red if the date is => the current date???

I'm guessing I'll have to figure out how to do this with VBA...but
wondering if there's a way without it, first?

TIA...

Dian D. Chapman
Technical Consultant, Instructor
Microsoft MVP & MOS Expert Certified

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