How do I make a cell equal to another cells value and not it's fo.

How do I make a cell equal to another cells value and not it's formula?
(without using a macro)

For example:
Cell X is set up to read the current date.
Cell Y is an empty cell that the user will either leave blank or place an "X".
I want cell Z to read cell Y and if there is an "X" I want the date that is
in cell X to be hardcoded into cell Z.

See

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/timestamp.html

use the circular reference part and format for date or replace NOW() with
TODAY()

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

(No private emails please, for everyone's
benefit keep the discussion in the newsgroup/forum)



"TroutKing" <TroutKing@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4FEDFB3F-DFFB-41B5-B65B-49F9206029BA@microsoft.com...
> How do I make a cell equal to another cells value and not it's formula?
> (without using a macro)
>
> For example:
> Cell X is set up to read the current date.
> Cell Y is an empty cell that the user will either leave blank or place an
> "X".
> I want cell Z to read cell Y and if there is an "X" I want the date that
> is
> in cell X to be hardcoded into cell Z.

Thank you for the input - and your answer takes care of half of the problem
for me. However, I still need to hardcode the value that is placed into the
cell using that formula into another cell. Do you know how I can do that?

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

> See
>
> http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/timestamp.html
>
> use the circular reference part and format for date or replace NOW() with
> TODAY()
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Peo Sjoblom
>
> (No private emails please, for everyone's
> benefit keep the discussion in the newsgroup/forum)
>
>
>
> "TroutKing" <TroutKing@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4FEDFB3F-DFFB-41B5-B65B-49F9206029BA@microsoft.com...
> > How do I make a cell equal to another cells value and not it's formula?
> > (without using a macro)
> >
> > For example:
> > Cell X is set up to read the current date.
> > Cell Y is an empty cell that the user will either leave blank or place an
> > "X".
> > I want cell Z to read cell Y and if there is an "X" I want the date that
> > is
> > in cell X to be hardcoded into cell Z.
>
>
>