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Help with Excel needed
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantMarEll
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Can anyone tell me if there is a function in Excel that will add a certain value to an extisting cell on a regular basis, say add 5 to the cell every thursday, regardless of wether the sheet was opened.  I want to limit my Bluray spending to £5 a week, you see.
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You could use VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). Yout take the date of your start and the date from now, calculate the difference in days, divide it by 7 and then multiply it by 5 pounds.
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There's date & time functions and you could probably create a series of function cells which will do what you wish but the fact is - worksheets aren't updated unless they're opened.
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If you're going by the calendar year, you could use WEEKNUM(TODAY()) * 5.

EDIT:  but as the good Doctor points out, the file can only update when opened.
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Sorted it, not sure why I posted this thread tbh, once I actually thought it out it was pretty obvious 

Here it is:


With formulae:


Also found a feature I never knew Excel had, 'conditional formatting' in the Format menu.  Last time I needed to change the text colour of a cell based on its value I had to use VBA, now excel has it built in...apparently.

Thanks for the replies guys. 
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Quoting MarEll:
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Also found a feature I never knew Excel had, 'conditional formatting' in the Format menu.  Last time I needed to change the text colour of a cell based on its value I had to use VBA, now excel has it built in...apparently.

Must have been a while since you last used Excel. The "conditional formatting" has been there forever. I know that it is there in Excel 2000, but I think it was there even in Excel 97 or even longer.


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Well I use Excel fairly regular but the last time I had use for this feature was many years ago.  Might have been using '97 at the time actually.  It could have been there and I missed it though.
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