How to create stopwatch in Excel worksheet?
If there is a stopwatch in your worksheet, you will know the time to finish a job. How can you create a stopwatch in a sheet with a Start, Stop, and Reset Button as following screenshot shown? If you click the Start button, it will start time, if you click Stop button, it will stop time, and the Reset button can help you to reset time. This article, I will talk about how to create a simple and handy stopwatch in Excel.
Create a stopwatch with three buttons by using VBA code
Create a stopwatch with three buttons by using VBA code
To create a stopwatch with three buttons, Start, Stop and Reset, please do with the following steps one by one.
Firstly, insert three command buttons.
1. Click Developer > Insert > Command Button, see screenshot:
2. Then drag the mouse to draw a button, after inserting the button, you can change the button caption, please click Developer > Properties, in the Properties dialog, enter the new caption “Start” for this button in the textbox beside the Caption, see screenshots:
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3. Repeat the above two steps to insert other two buttons and caption them as “Stop” and “Reset”, see screenshot:
4. After inserting the buttons, you should exit the design mode by clicking Developer > Design Mode.
Secondly, create a VBA code.
5. And then, right click the current worksheet tab, and choose View Code, in the popped out Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, please copy and paste the following code into the Sheet Code:
VBA code: Create stopwatch:
Public StopIt As Boolean
Public ResetIt As Boolean
Public LastTime
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim StartTime, FinishTime, TotalTime, PauseTime
StopIt = False
ResetIt = False
If Range("C2") = 0 Then
StartTime = Timer
PauseTime = 0
LastTime = 0
Else
StartTime = 0
PauseTime = Timer
End If
StartIt:
DoEvents
If StopIt = True Then
LastTime = TotalTime
Exit Sub
Else
FinishTime = Timer
TotalTime = FinishTime - StartTime + LastTime - PauseTime
TTime = TotalTime * 100
HM = TTime Mod 100
TTime = TTime \ 100
hh = TTime \ 3600
TTime = TTime Mod 3600
MM = TTime \ 60
SS = TTime Mod 60
Range("C2").Value = Format(hh, "00") & ":" & Format(MM, "00") & ":" & Format(SS, "00") & "." & Format(HM, "00")
If ResetIt = True Then
Range("C2") = Format(0, "00") & ":" & Format(0, "00") & ":" & Format(0, "00") & "." & Format(0, "00")
LastTime = 0
PauseTime = 0
End
End If
GoTo StartIt
End If
End Sub
Private Sub CommandButton2_MouseDown(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
StopIt = True
End Sub
Private Sub CommandButton3_Click()
Range("C2").Value = Format(0, "00") & ":" & Format(0, "00") & ":" & Format(0, "00") & "." & Format(0, "00")
LastTime = 0
ResetIt = True
End Sub
Note: In the above code, C2 is the cell where the stopwatch time will be inserted, and the CommandButton1, CommandButton2, CommandButton3 are the button names, you can view the exact button name from the Name Box, see screenshot:
Thirdly, format the stopwatch time cell.
6. Then you should format the time cell as Text format, and you can change the cell size, font, font color, background, etc. as you need, see screenshot:
7. After finishing above steps, from now on, when you click Start button, the time will be start now, and click Stop button, it will stop time, the Reset button will reset the time, see screenshot:
Demo: Create a stopwatch with three buttons by using VBA code
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