Insert Current Date

Question

Hello,

I recently acquired Office 2016 but im having a hard time with an old hotkey i used to have.

I cannot insert the current date ( 10/27/2015 ) into my cells . Every time i use control + shift + semicolon it only pastes the actual hour.  command + shift + semilcolon does the same thing.

Is this a general thing or just my macbook pro?

thank you

Answer 1

Thank you for being an **** Bob. If you took the decency to read the post you will know that i already tried the hotkey several time with no work. You should restrain yourself from posting if you dont want to help.

Answer 2

Well, you are right Mike.... these are the officially posted shortcuts...

However, it just does not work. I have the same problem as Shackwell. The funny thing is that it worked with the pre-release of excel 2016. Now, I just get the current time in hours and minutes and it does not change anything if I apply the date format, press the fn-keys in addition to the previous mentioned keys or anything else.

I guess it is a bug... My excel is up to date....

Any ideas?

Answer 3

In all fairness, Bob G's [only] reply was to your initial message, in which there was no mention of having tried Control+; . You made that point only in your response to his reply.

Answer 4

Make sure you have Office 2016 fully updated by going to Help> Check for Updates in the main menu of any Office program. [15.5 is the current version]. Also, confirm that your version of OS X is fully updated. Once all updates are confirmed:

• If running OS X 10.10.5 run Disk Utility to repair disk permissions followed by a Restart
• If running OS X 10.11.1 there is no user-generated permissions repair, just Restart

Answer 5

Not working