Follow

Keep Up to Date with the Most Important News

By pressing the Subscribe button, you confirm that you have read and are agreeing to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Contact

Get current time in a cell and stop it from changing

Intuitively, one’d use =now() to get current time in a cell. However, every time some changes are made to the sheet, the cell’s value changes to the current time. I only want to get the timestamp when the cell is filled for the first time, and it shouldn’t change after that.

How can I do this?

MEDevel.com: Open-source for Healthcare and Education

Collecting and validating open-source software for healthcare, education, enterprise, development, medical imaging, medical records, and digital pathology.

Visit Medevel

>Solution :

If you just want to insert date or time once you can apply one of these shortcuts:

Place the cursor into the cell of interest and press one of the
following shortcuts:

Ctrl+; (semicolon) to enter the current date.

Ctrl+Shift+; (semicolon) to enter the current time.

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+; (semicolon) to add both,
current date and time.

Reference

Add a comment

Leave a Reply

Keep Up to Date with the Most Important News

By pressing the Subscribe button, you confirm that you have read and are agreeing to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Discover more from Dev solutions

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading