Random number assignment & auto date insertion

Tasha

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I'm presently teaching a basic Excel course and one of my students requested a reply to this question. She works in a factory and must put out daily reports of all employees'production levels. Her specific inquiry was: "How do I have Excel automatically print the date without user intervention and how can I assign a list of chronological numbers to each production sheet similar to an invoice number without user intervention?"
 

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On 2002-09-16 19:49, Tasha wrote:
I'm presently teaching a basic Excel course and one of my students requested a reply to this question. She works in a factory and must put out daily reports of all employees'production levels. Her specific inquiry was: "How do I have Excel automatically print the date without user intervention and how can I assign a list of chronological numbers to each production sheet similar to an invoice number without user intervention?"

Hi Tasha - welcome to the board!

Not quite sure where to start here - there's a risk of teaching granny to suck eggs etc...

Re the 'print today's date' issue - depends what you want to do. =today() in a cell will automatically update in line with the computer's clock. Is this too simple minded?

Re the 'auto update number' issue - one way would be to have a macro that ran each time the workbook opened & added 1 to the number in a cell. Again, the details would depend on what was trying to be achieved.

post back if this is way off the mark (or even if it isn't!)

Paddy
 
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Thnx Paddy,
Where could I get the code for such a macro to increment a number by one digit? I'm a little green but I'm willing to learn.
 
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On 2002-09-16 20:23, Tasha wrote:
Thnx Paddy,
Where could I get the code for such a macro to increment a number by one digit? I'm a little green but I'm willing to learn.


1) Open a new workbook
2) Press Alt + F11 to open te VBA editor
3) Double click on the 'ThisWorkbook' entry on the left.
4) Paste this code into the window on the right:

Code:
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
'
Range("sheet1!a1").Value = Range("sheet1!a1").Value + 1
End Sub

5) Close the editor & the workbook, saving as you go.
6) Open the workbook - check out a1 on sheet1. Save, close & do it again...

Paddy
 
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