Jaseone
Thanks for your reply this was my question too. Nonetheless I realized that each time I add a new record to the form, all dates (including those of previous records) change to today's date.
My question is: is it possible to keep the date/time that was automatically entered when the data was filled in, to remain stable for each separate entry and not change (in other words I need it to appear on the spreadsheet table as the exact time that the data on this particular row were entered and stay there as a permanent "proof" of the exact time that this particular entry occurred.
Is it possible?
I notice that this is a very old discussion, I hope everyone is ok and someone can reply
Thanks to all!
Actually you can try something, I just don't have the English version of Numbers at hand.
One of the formula's in the Text category should be called something like PLAIN.TEXT.
Your formula in column A should then read:
IF(B1>"";PLAIN.TEXT(TODAY);"")
TODAY returning a number (right aligned by default), PLAIN.TEXT returns a text (left aligned by default).
This should be an indication for you to see it's working.
As for the other part of the problem: in Numbers, you can't make a formula automatically pop up in an empty A cell once there is a content in a B cell next to it. This is however doable in Excel via VisualBasic. So you should take Jaseone's latter part and copy the formula in the A column downward.
Indeed, very sad to see how little progress is made in Numbers during the past 4 years...
EDIT: sorry, my idea doesn't work either.