[Year 12 IT Apps] Excel Question

[Geoff Moss]

Hi David

Attached is an illustration of how to save the date when an order is made rather than the current date    =now().

It may be useful for students to view the process with the screen dumps provided.

You will notice the current date and time in cell A1.  Cell A3 is a copy and paste of cell A1.

In cell A5 you will notice that there is a significant time difference in the time.  The data in cells A3 and A5 were copied in the same timeframe (except for a few seconds).

I have noticed that the time has stalled in cells A1 and A3.  To demonstrate the difference in time I found that if I typed =now() in another cell, say F1, the dates in A1 and A3 changed to the current time.

Regards

Geoff Moss
RMIT



> David Howard <DHoward at padua.melb.catholic.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Yes yet another excel question. Is there any way when copying data from
> a cell to make it not copy the formula and copy only the value from the
> formula? Ie cell a1 has in it =date() or 14/08/2007 when this is copied
> it copies the formula =date() so the problem is that if an order is made
> today for instance and you want a macro to save the date that the order
> was made, then the order will always be made on the current date.
> 
> Confused?
> 
> Also, is there anyway to make a cell count as an autonumber like in
> access?
> 
> Regards
> 
> David Howard
> Padua College
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Show file extensions?
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> All
> 
> This is a very good question.
> 
> We have file .ext turned on. The kids who need to be assured that they
> have the correct ext find it useful but most of the others kids have no
> idea. In fact most of them (because their machines at home by default
> have ext turned off I suspect) delete the ext because they didn't put
> that 'funny bit at the end' on so they just don't bother with it when
> they rename.
> 
> We have most of our issues because it's on.
> 
> I reckon the most difficult thing to teach in IT is file management.
> 
> Bring back windows explorer or even better still Xtree Gold....
> 
> Brendyn
> 
> Brendyn Hancock
> IT Manager
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> 
> >>> Russell Edwards <edwards.russell.t at edumail.vic.gov.au> 14/08/2007
> 8:54 am >>>
> A quick question:
> 
> Does your school have Windows set up for students to show them the  
> file extensions, or not?  What do you think about the policy?
> 
> Ours doesn't show them the extensions. I can see why this may be less 
> 
> confusing for staff and students with low skill levels, however for  
> the better students it is probably _more_confusing. At times it's  
> downright annoying, for example when teaching them HTML and telling  
> them to guess the extension of an image they wish to include... not  
> to mention explaining to them why the file they saved from Notepad as 
> 
> "page1" (.txt) doesn't  load up in IE the other "page1" (.htm) does.
> 
> Interested to hear what other schools do.  While I'm at it, I'm  
> frustrated by the lack of the right-click menu in windows explorer  
> for students, and also the blocking of Task Manager--- but I suppose  
> there may be security reasons for these.
> 
> Russell
> 
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