Help with Macro for Prefilling Pay on Dynamic Dates

[Jay_85]

Hi All,

New around here so thanks for your time in advance.

I am building a complex finance planner/tracker for distribution to a wide audience.

I have become stuck with a particular part of the planner I am trying to build.

I have a table that lists every day in the 2019/2020 financial year. I want for the user to first choose the date of their first pay and the interval of pay (e.g. fortnightly, monthly etc) so very simple two points of data input. From there I want the table with the dates to be pre-populated with the pay amount against each relevant date.

Is this possible and if so could someone please help me with the formula to get it to work?

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers,

Jay

EDIT: The key here is that different users will select different intervals (from a drop down preferably) and the function still needs to work appropriately.

[AliGW]

Welcome to the form!

Yes it's possible, but there isn't a simple plug-and-go formula for it.

Will you please attach a sample Excel workbook? We are not able to work with or manipulate a picture of one and nobody wants to have to recreate your data from scratch.

1. Make sure that your sample data are REPRESENTATIVE of your real data. The use of unrepresentative data is very frustrating and can lead to long delays in reaching a solution.

2. Make sure that your desired results are also shown (mock up the results manually).

3. Make sure that all confidential data is removed or replaced with dummy data first (e.g. names, addresses, E-mails, etc.).

4. Try to avoid using merged cells as they cause lots of problems.

Unfortunately the attachment icon doesn't work at the moment, so to attach an Excel file you have to do the following: just before posting, scroll down to Go Advanced and then scroll down to Manage Attachments. Now follow the instructions at the top of that screen.

Please pay particular attention to point 2 (above): without an idea of your intended outcomes, it is often very difficult to offer appropriate advice.

[Jay_85]

Many thanks Ali, I have done as you advised. Hopefully that makes life easier.

[AliGW]

Thanks. Can I just clarify: you want the amount to appear, but for the entire incomings/outgoings table to be editable? The thing is, you can't have both a formula and manual entry in a cell, so for what you seem to want, for a wide audience, I suspect you are going to need VBA. Please clarify.

[Jay_85]

You're quite correct, Ali. I would be hoping for a solution that allows a prefill (maybe a macro attached to a button is a better option) as well as the ability to add additional values to cells in the incomings and outgoings column. Not being able to have both is a good point and perhaps macro's/VBA is a better option.

[AliGW]

I will move this to the VBA section for you.

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