Enter "today's" date when data entered into a specific cell?

[MikeyW1969]

Hi guys,
I'm setting up an Excel sheet to maintain a spreadsheet for asset management. We have an asset management system in place, but there are occasional times where it's offline(Or I am), so I wanted to make something that I could chart these items on, and I wanted to get a little fancy.

So I have a column for things like the user's name, the type of asset, the make/model., etc...

I would like to have the date auto-fill with the current date, when I enter something in the 'Name' column, which happens to be 'A'. The 'Date' column is 'B'. So what I'm looking for is when I enter anything in the 'Name' Field(Say the first row is "2", the next one would be "3", etc.), it would autofill in the date column next to it. So, if A2 contains my first user's name, B2 would have today's date. When I enter the next person, then that person's name would be in A3, and B3 would be where that particular date is.

Later, I would do the same for the date when I went back and added it to the asset management system and "closed" that entry, but if I learn how to do the first one, the next one will be easy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[DanteAmor]

Try this

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
  If Target.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub
  If Target.Column = 1 Then
    If Target.Value = "" Then Exit Sub
    Target.Offset(, 1).Value = Date
  End If
End Sub

SHEET EVENT
Right click the tab of the sheet you want this to work, select view code and paste the code into the window that opens up.

Return to the excel sheet, type something in cell A2, the date will automatically be set in cell B2.

 

[Special-K99]

in B1
=IF(A1="","",TODAY())

format as a date
copy the formula down the B column.

 

[MikeyW1969]

OK, so this one worked beautifully.

For the 'A' column. I figured that i just needed to change the

If Target.Column = 1 Then

line to '8' or something(For the 8th column), to do the second date entry farther down the list, but that didn't work. What am I missing? Or does having two different areas with the possible date entry completely change the thing?

 

[DanteAmor]

OK, so this one worked beautifully.

For the 'A' column. I figured that i just needed to change the

If Target.Column = 1 Then

line to '8' or something(For the 8th column), to do the second date entry farther down the list, but that didn't work. What am I missing? Or does having two different areas with the possible date entry completely change the thing?

If you want it to work for columns A and H and set the date to B and I respectively, then try this:

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
  If Target.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub
  If Not Intersect(Target, Range("A:A, H:H")) Is Nothing Then
    If Target.Value = "" Then Exit Sub
    Target.Offset(, 1).Value = Date
  End If
End Sub

 

[MikeyW1969]

That was perfect! Thanks again.

I love this site, everyone has a different way to approach the issue, and all of the suggestions work. This one will be perfect. Thanks!

 

[DanteAmor]

That was perfect! Thanks again.

I love this site, everyone has a different way to approach the issue, and all of the suggestions work. This one will be perfect. Thanks!

I'm glad to help you. Thanks for the feedback.