David from Australia sends in a cool trick for adding a timestamp to a spreadsheet. Episode 1106 shows you how.
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Transcript of the video:
Hey, welcome back to the MrExcel netcast, I'm Bill Jelen.
Today tip sent in by David from Australia and I think I've shown this on the podcast before, but it's worth repeating, because it's a cool little trick.
First of all, let's talk about the function called Now.
=now() is an interesting function, that it puts in current date and time.
So if you use Now, you might be interested in a function called =today.
Today is like Now, except it doesn't bother to put in the time, that's nice as you calculate the spreadsheet, that calculations not going to change.
But what if you want a date and time that isn't going to change?
That's just going to be permanent, not the current date and time, but the time that you happen to enter the date in the spreadsheet.
A couple of cool tricks here that David sent in.
If you just press Ctrl+; that will put a current timestamp right in the cell.
Ctrl+; and then Ctrl+Shift+;, which is basically doing Ctrl+;, will give you the current timestamp.
Great little trick there, the way to remember it of course, in time we have a colon, so it’s Ctrl+; to get the time, just unrelease the Shift, Ctrl+; to get the date.
Thanks to David for sending that question in, thanks to you for stopping by, we'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
Today tip sent in by David from Australia and I think I've shown this on the podcast before, but it's worth repeating, because it's a cool little trick.
First of all, let's talk about the function called Now.
=now() is an interesting function, that it puts in current date and time.
So if you use Now, you might be interested in a function called =today.
Today is like Now, except it doesn't bother to put in the time, that's nice as you calculate the spreadsheet, that calculations not going to change.
But what if you want a date and time that isn't going to change?
That's just going to be permanent, not the current date and time, but the time that you happen to enter the date in the spreadsheet.
A couple of cool tricks here that David sent in.
If you just press Ctrl+; that will put a current timestamp right in the cell.
Ctrl+; and then Ctrl+Shift+;, which is basically doing Ctrl+;, will give you the current timestamp.
Great little trick there, the way to remember it of course, in time we have a colon, so it’s Ctrl+; to get the time, just unrelease the Shift, Ctrl+; to get the date.
Thanks to David for sending that question in, thanks to you for stopping by, we'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
