How to quickly jump to the cell with current date in Excel?
Here is a sheet with a list of dates, you want to quickly jump to the cell which is with current date, how to solve this problem?
Jump to the current date with VBA
Jump to the current date with Find and Replace
Jump to the current date with VBA
Here is a VBA code that can help you quickly jump to the cell with current date.
1. Enable the workbook you want to use, and press Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module, paste below code to the Module.
VBA: Jump to current date
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
'UpdatebyExtendoffice20161221
Dim daterng As Range
Dim DateCell As Range
Dim WorkSht As Worksheet
Dim dateStr As String
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For Each WorkSht In Worksheets
WorkSht.Select
'Set daterng = Range("A:A")
Set daterng = WorkSht.UsedRange
'daterng.Select
For Each DateCell In daterng
DateCell.Activate
ActiveCell.Select
On Error Resume Next
dateStr = DateCell.Value
If dateStr = Date Then
DateCell.Select
Exit Sub
End If
Next
Next WorkSht
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
'Worksheets(1).Select
End Sub
3. Press F5 key, then the cursor jumps to the cell with current date wherever you locate in the workbook.
Jump to the current date with Find and Replace
If you are not familiar with VBA code, you also can apply the Find and Replace utility to jump to the current date.
1. Enable the sheet which contains the date list, and select a blank cell, type this formula =TODAY(), press Enter key, now you get the today date.
2. Press Ctrl + C to copy the today date, and go to select the list of dates, and then press Ctrl + F to enable the Find and Replace dialog, in the Find what textbox, press Ctrl + V to the paste the today date into. See screenshot:
3. Click Find All. Now the cursor jumps to the cell with today in the selected list.
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