Automatically generate timestamps when barcode scanned in Excel
People are looking for hands free entering of in and out timestamps when scanning barcodes. In this code there in no need to click a button, it will automatically run when the bar code cell changes. Track in and out times when bar code is scanned Automatically.
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Code for on the worksheet
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Not Intersect(Target, Me.Range(“B2”)) Is Nothing Then
Application.EnableEvents = False
Call inout
Application.EnableEvents = True
End If
End Sub
code for the macro
Sub inout()
Dim barcode As String
Dim rng As Range
Dim rownumber As Long
barcode = Worksheets(“Sheet1”).Cells(2, 2)
Set rng = Sheet1.Columns(“a:a”).Find(What:=barcode, _
LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False)
If rng Is Nothing Then
ActiveSheet.Columns(“a:a”).Find(“”).Select
ActiveCell.Value = barcode
ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Select
ActiveCell.Value = Date & ” ” & Time
ActiveCell.NumberFormat = “m/d/yyyy h:mm AM/PM”
Worksheets(“Sheet1”).Cells(2, 2) = “”
Else
rownumber = rng.Row
Worksheets(“Sheet1″).Cells(rownumber, 1).Select
ActiveCell.Offset(0, 2).Select
ActiveCell.Value = Date & ” ” & Time
ActiveCell.NumberFormat = “m/d/yyyy h:mm AM/PM”
Worksheets(“Sheet1”).Cells(2, 2) = “”
End If
Worksheets(“Sheet1”).Cells(2, 2).Select
End Sub
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