Excel Macro: If Cell A is clicked, copy Cell B and paste as value, then return position to Cell A

Question

I am creating a form template in Excel that has Cell B = TODAY() so, when a user opens the template to fill out the form, today's date is displayed.

However, once the user fills out the form, I would like Cell B to equal the value of TODAY(), so the cell does not update every time the Workbook is opened.

My solution to this was to create a Macro that does the following:

When the user clicks on Cell A, a cell that the user is required to fill in with text, Cell B, containing the formula =TODAY(), is copied and pasted as a value to the same position. Then, Cell A is selected again so the user can fill in the required information.

Below is my example VBA, which checks if Cell A is empty instead of being clicked on. I would like to change this though, if someone could help with that.

In this example, Cell A is E11 and Cell B is E13.

Sub Date_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
    Dim Rng As Range
    Set Rng = Sheets("Form").Range("E13")
    If Sheets("Form").Range("E11") = Empty Then
        Sheets("Form").Range("E13") = TODAY()
    Else
        Rng.Copy
        Rng.PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
        Set Rng = Nothing
        Application.CutCopyMode = False
        Cells(11, 5).Select 
End Sub

Answer 1

How's this (this goes in the worksheet you want to run it on's module):

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim cellA As Range, cellB As Range
Set cellA = Sheets("Form").Range("E11")
Set cellB = Sheets("Form").Range("E13")
    If Target.Row = cellA.Row And Target.Column = cellA.Column Then
    Dim Rng As Range
    Set Rng = cellA
    If cellA = Empty Then
        cellB.Value = WorksheetFunction.Text(Month(Now()) & "/" & Day(Now()) & "/" & Year(Now()), "MM/DD/YYYY")
    Else
        Rng.Copy
        Rng.PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
        Set Rng = Nothing
        Application.CutCopyMode = False
        Cells(11, 5).Select
    End If
    End If
End Sub

You may need to check my declarations, but that should get you going. It'll check to see if cell E11 was selected, and if so, will run.

Answer 2

Within the workbook object you have a built in event workbook_beforesave... you could put the code there.

I recorded a macro which updates B3 to be a hard value, eliminating the formula.

I then copied the code out of the macro and hit save. You may need to update the "range" to account for specific worksheet if multiple sheets in workbook.

Private Sub Workbook_BeforeSave(ByVal SaveAsUI As Boolean, Cancel As Boolean)
    Range("B3").Select
    Selection.Copy
    Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks _
        :=False, Transpose:=False
End Sub