Can't find today's date

[Otto Moehrbach]

Excel 2002, WinXP
I'm down to the last hairs on this one.
An OP has a list of March dates in Column C. He wants to find today's date
and place the contents of cell A1 into the cell to the right of today's
date. Simple enough. I write out a quick macro (below) and send it to him
via the newsgroup. It doesn't work for him. The error is that the Find
cannot find today's date.
I tell him to send me his file. Sure enough, the macro does not work on his
file.
The only difference between his and my Column Cs is this:
He entered 3/1/06 into C1. Then in C2 he put "=C1+1" (without the quotes)
and dragged that formula down 30 some cells.
I, on the other hand, entered 3/1/06 into C1 and dragged that cell down some
30 cells.
The macro works on my file but not on his. I entered the dates my way on
his file and all is well.
Why did the formula setup result in the error? Thanks for your help. Otto
Sub FindDate()
Dim TheRng As Range
Set TheRng = Range("C1", Range("C" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp))
TheRng.Find(What:=Date, LookAt:=xlWhole).Offset(, 1).Value =
Range("A1").Value
End Sub

 

[Dave Peterson]

Sometimes converting the date to a long will work better:

TheRng.find(what:=clng(date), ...

Sometimes using application.match (with clng()) works better than .find, too.

 

[Otto Moehrbach]

Thanks Dave. There is no end to learning. The CLng(Date) didn't work. The
Match with Date didn't work. The Match with CLng(Date) worked. Is there
some rationale to this? My engineering brain needs a reason when something
happens. Otto

 

[Dave Peterson]

Not that I know.

One more option is to pick up the numberformat from one of the cells to be
searched (if they have the same format) and use that.

 

[Otto Moehrbach]

Dave
You lost me there. What do you mean by "pick up the numberformat from
one of the cells to be searched"? Thanks for taking the time to help me.
Otto

 

[Dave Peterson]

Dim myNumberFormat as string
dim FoundCell as range
with .range("C:C")
mynumberformat = .cells(1).numberformat
set foundcell = .cells.find(what:=application.text(date,mynumberformat), ....

.....

Dave
You lost me there. What do you mean by "pick up the numberformat from
one of the cells to be searched"? Thanks for taking the time to help me.
Otto

 

[Otto Moehrbach]

Thanks Dave. I'll file that one for future use. Otto