Google Spreadsheet: Output current date (statically)
Published 2017-06-30, 13:03
Imagine you have a Google Spreadsheet with a „last active“ column where you e.g. log the date when you last worked on the line item. You don’t want to have to type the date every time you change something as a) typing is cumbersome and b) you don’t even know the current date anyway.
Normally there is a default keyboard shortcut for that in Google Spreadsheets:
| Insert time: | Ctrl + Shift + ; |
Unfortunately this doesn’t really work with a German keyboard (in Windows 10 with English OS language). In Chrome you can replace the Semicolon with Ü, but in Firefox this doesn’t work and I found no way to trigger this shortcut 🙁
Two solutions:
- Create a field with formula `=TODAY()`, maybe in the second row of the headline of the table. (Unfortunately this value will be recalculated on every change – so you can’t just use THAT everywhere to get the date – this value will change.) Now you can just Ctrl + C to copy that value and then Ctrl + Shift + V to output its value (and not copy the formula) to the target cell.
- Add a „Date“ validation to your column. Now you can double click the cell to get a nice calendar tooltip thingie where you can just click on the date you want.
To be honest 1) doesn’t really solve b), but you can leave the formula from 1) in the subheader for that anyway and just use 2) use this instead of the value pasting from 1).
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