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    I have a Labour Management Spreadsheet. Excel 2008 for Mac.

    Column A = Surnames
    Column B = FirstNames
    Row 1 = Day of Week (mon, tues, wed)
    Row 2 = Dates (03/05/2010)

    I have done a freeze pane on cell C3 allowing me to scroll through the 45 members of staff, whilst retaining the dates along the top, and also allowing me to scroll through to future dates retaining A & B's names down the left.

    How can I make excel jump to TODAY's column within the spreadsheet on startup?

    Search Row 2 for TODAY, then scroll right, until this is the most left?

    Thank you for any advice you can give.

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    Re: Jump to today's Column

    Try this in the workbook_open event
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    Thank you for your help RoyUK.

    I have no doubt that this will work great. Unfortunately I'm not aware of how to apply VBA code in Office 2008 for Mac.

    I'm going to email my spreadsheet over to windows, apply the code, then bring it back. but it appears you can only run code with Office 2008, and not edit any macro written in vba?
    If anyone knows of a way to apply this using Excel for Mac, that would be great!

    Dan

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    Re: Jump to today's Column

    There is no VBA support for Mac2008 I'm afraid - to automate you would most likely need to investigate AppleScript and you're more likely to have luck on a dedicated Mac Forum than here I'm afraid.

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    Re: Jump to today's Column

    Quote Originally Posted by DonkeyOte View Post
    There is no VBA support for Mac2008 I'm afraid - to automate you would most likely need to investigate AppleScript and you're more likely to have luck on a dedicated Mac Forum than here I'm afraid.
    I have implemented code using Office 2003 - Works a treat.

    Thank you

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    Re: Jump to today's Column

    Did you transfer the code to the Mac?

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