How to to to make a textbox appearing as a date ?

[francois.lemarie]

Hello

I want this textbox appear in Date format all the time.

It's a date box with linked cell that will be modified automatically, so a change event it is not possible. The linkedcell X7 is still in date format.

Any way to do it ?

 

[nchavan]

Hi,

Try using the code below:

Private Sub TextBox1_Change()
    TextBox1.Value = Format(Range("A2").Value, "MM/DD/YYYY")
End Sub

You will get the desired output.

 

[francois.lemarie]

I see you insisted to put it in a change event. My textbox is linked with a cell in which you have the formula : =today(). User won't change it.
I trew to do what you said but if I changed the system date to update the content of the result =today(), the textbox is not being updated. Indeed, the textbox must be updated automatically when the date is changing.

Please, do you have another solution that will really work in this case ?

 

[Andrew Poulsom]

Insert a TextBox from the Drawing Toolbar. Select it, go to the formula bar, type =, point at the cell you want to link to and press Enter. When you select the TextBox you should see a formula like =$A$1 in the formula bar.

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

Hi

The change event will be triggered when the LinkedCell value changes. Using =TODAY() or NOW() is fine.

[COLOR="Blue"]Private[/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]Sub[/COLOR] TextBox1_Change()
    [COLOR="Blue"]With[/COLOR] Me.TextBox1
        .Value = [COLOR="Blue"]Format$[/COLOR](Me.Range(.LinkedCell).Value, "dd/mm/yy")
    [COLOR="Blue"]End[/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]With[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Blue"]End[/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]Sub[/COLOR]

 

[francois.lemarie]

The response of Jon was more suitable to my needs.

I copied your code Jon and it worked.

However, as Excel does not consider the LinkedCell is changing when it updates today() it automatically, I had then to add to Jon's code a complementary macro to simulate a user is changing the cell.

Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()
Range("x7").Value = "=today()"
Range("A1").Select
End Sub

And thus I could solve my problem.

Thanks to both for your time !

François

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

However, as Excel does not consider the LinkedCell is changing when it updates today() it automatically, I had then to add to Jon's code a complementary macro to simulate a user is changing the cell.

That's strange because it worked as expected when I tested it. It refreshed with each calculation (test by hitting F9). I don't suppose you're working in manual calculation mode?

But all in all I'm glad you got it working.

 

[francois.lemarie]

Yes, That's really strange. Furthermore it stopped working so I trew the pruposition of Andrew and its works.

Thanks to both for your very kind help.

Best regards.