What cell do you want the date to change in? Let’s say C5 Here is where the genius of my non-code writing laziness pays off. You can click it and change the date as much as you want but nothing else is changing in your spreadsheet! This allows you to play with the settings for the date box you just created.ĭeselect Design Mode and you have a date control! Select the drop down and a calendar appears! Holy Cow that’s super cool awesome but guess what! It doesn’t do anything! You will also notice that you are in Design Mode because that icon is highlighted.
#HOW TO INSERT CURRENT DATE IN EXCEL ON MAC CODE#
You will also see code in the top akin to “=EMBED(“MSComCtl2.DTPicker.2″,””)” Your mouse will turn in to a cross hair – click and hold, draw a rectangle, release. There are all sorts of funky add-ins you can use in your spreadsheets! We are looking for the Microsoft Date and Time Picker Control Scroll through the list of controls and look what’s available. Go to the developer tab and select Insert, followed by the little Pink Floyd-esque More Controls icon. Now you have the developer tab with all the controls for forms, xml, code, etc.
The first thing you need to do is enable the Developer Tab in Excel. Would you like the easiest, cheesiest, sleaziest way to do this? Well then watch this:
I assume you just want someone using the spreadsheet to be able to select a cell, have a calendar drop down and then populate the field with whatever date the person chooses.
#HOW TO INSERT CURRENT DATE IN EXCEL ON MAC FULL#
This seems like it would be so easy yet when you look around on-line the answers are all full of VBA scripts and custom code. I want to have a cell formated so that I can have a pull down menu of a calendar in which to choose the date. I am sure that I saw a pull down menu in a worksheet cell. How do I insert a calendar as a way for a user to click on the cell have the date box open and choose the date that should be in the cell? Also where do I send the beer? So you want to create a drop down calendar in Excel? Apart from sending alerts to Outlook from Excel (working on that article as well) this has been the most requested how-to as of late.
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