[RESOLVED] calendar/ date reference question

[fumalicious]

hey all, I'm new here... been searching far and wide for what seems like should be simple. I am a glass blower- not a programmer- but I'm working on learning vba at the moment working on a basic calendar/ to do type application in Excel 2003... on windows xp... and I'm stuck.

So I've found a number of ways to do calendars- but I'm making one that is linear i.e. just goes left to right... any suggestions on that would be appreciated. I did make one but I'm sure there is a better way then I did it.

The main thing I need- why I'm posting- is simply this: I need to reference the year in a date in a cell.... that's all.. just look at the date and say what year it is so that I can then color the different years differently. This isn't that hard is it? I've been able to find different things in code that are close but they're essentially either referencing ONE date (i.e. a start date) or they system date... how do I tell the code to look at any random cell with a date in it and capture the year so as to use that as a reference further??

Thanks for any help!

[VBClassicRocks]

Kind of hard to answer without knowing what you mean by 'cell', but
this may help:

 Text1.Text = Now 'assign current date/time to textbox
 Debug.Print Year(Text1.Text)
 Debug.Print Month(Text1.Text)
 Debug.Print Day(Text1.Text)
 Debug.Print Hour(Text1.Text)
 Debug.Print Minute(Text1.Text)
 Debug.Print Second(Text1.Text)

[fumalicious]

Well I appreciate the response... but...

Are you serious? You don't know what a CELL is?? Is my question that unclear?

I'm working Excel 2003 on Windows XP using the Visual Basic Editor. Am I on the wrong forum? I thought this was a forum for Visual Basic that I can use.... the program Excel is based on CELLS you gotta know what I'm talking about whether you program or not, most novices have at least USED Excel and understand what a "cell" is.......

Can someone at least just tell me what forum to go to? If you guys don't know what a cell is I'm obviously in the wrong place... that's like a runner not knowing what a shoe is. I'm just using the Visual Basic part of Excel 2003 to program a simple application based in Excel... is this really so alien to you guys??

*Baffled*

[akhileshbc]

Welcome to VBForums.com

I'm just using the Visual Basic part of Excel 2003 to program a simple application based in Excel

That is VBA not VB6..
Your question should be posted in this forum: Office Development (includes VBA)
I will inform the moderators, so that they will move this Thread....

I thought this was a forum for Visual Basic that I can use....

Here, you can post VB5 or VB6 related questions...

[fumalicious]

sweet, thank you!

[si_the_geek]

Thread moved to 'Office Development/VBA' forum (note that the "VB Editor" in Office programs is actually VBA rather than VB, so the 'VB6' forum is not really apt)


This may work for you:

MsgBox Year(Sheet1.Range("A1").Value)

[fumalicious]

fantastic! (didn't need the message box.. and worked perfect) thanks for the help, really appreciate it! Now back to the rest of the puzzles to figure out!

[si_the_geek]

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