Excel Timestamp: Automatically Add Date & Time to a Column in Microsoft Excel

In this Microsoft Excel tutorial I'm going to teach you how to add an automatic timestamp by putting the date and time that a row was edited in a particular column. We're going to accomplish this using just a little bit of VBA.

Emily from Portland, Oregon (a Platinum Member) asks: I have a spreadsheet where I track my transactions which are usually payments to different vendors and accounts. Is there a way that I can automatically have the current date and time entered into the date column instead of having to manually type that in all the time?

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[fotiosfotinakis]

Live long & prosper, too, teacher Richard. I admire your philanthropy for free tech help!

[Jojosmith]

Hi Richard, I like the new background of your video. Very bright. Thanks for your great tutorial. Thumb up 👍 from beginning class for the passionate instructor. Could you please teach us how to do the leave that employees are taking? Ex: there are different types of leave: sick, vacation, family, trainning, recertification, etc...and employees are working shifts starting & end at different hours. The working shift is scheduled for 8 hrs/per shift with 24 hrs operation. Thanks so much Richard for inspiring us to keep learning. You rock!

[weirdlyhungry]

Richard you're a hero. Love from India.

[fotiosfotinakis]

[CTRL] - [;] enters current date! Thank you Richard Rost!

[stephenbeswick]

Hi Richard this. Video was excellent I only use excel for small details like battery charge and discharge but very good video Steve b

[ismaelnatera]

Hello Richard !, I was successful with your video but I had one problem when I copy lets say 3 rows and paste them down below I only get the date on the first row and the other 2 are empty although there is text in the target column ? Is there anything I can add so that it adds the date to every row that has a text in that column .

thank you for this video by the way this was absolutely well put together!!! thank you again

[KiranKumar-ct]

Hi🙂 How do I write a VBA for to auto reflect the date and time in PST when user update the sheet from IST. or some message input that shows the PST timing.

Hi, I have series of timestamp values in this format 3:04:00 am, 1:13:00 pm in different rows.

I want to delete these rows. Pls suggest any method or create a video

[CallipygianMoose]

is there a way to adapt this to target a specific change in a cell - for example if I change the status of a cell to "Quoted" I want the column next to it to date stamp when that status changed to Quoted specifically. I don't want it to change for any other status I put in there.