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When creating macros, you may have a need to know the specific day of the month represented by a particular date. For instance, you may want to determine the day of the month on which the macro is being executed. The following code will do the trick:
iDay = Day(Now())
The Day function returns an integer value representing the day of the month of whatever date you provide. In this example, the Now function represents today's date, and so Day returns today's day of the month.
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2014-06-28 22:49:52
Thank you. I would like to tell other readers that in Excel too, we have the same feature of getting g today's date. The procedure is.
In a cell type
=now()
This will give today's date, closed parentheses returns today's date.
Thank you
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