Autofill Date with Dropdown Selection

bjmillican

Hey everyone. I am trying to figure out how to make my sheet autofill today's date when we complete a project. We have a status column and when that column is marked "Completed" I want the Completion Date to autofill to today. I tried this:

=IF(Status@row = "Completed", TODAY())

The problem is that it changes the completed date to TODAY'S date every day and doesn't keep the correct completed date - if that makes sense. In other words, projects I marked as "Completed" on Friday filled in with Friday's date ON Friday, but today the projects I finished Friday have today's date as the date completed.

Would love someone's expertise on this.

Thanks!

M Morgan

Have you considered using automation rather than a formula?

You can have a trigger when the status changes to "completed", the recorded date is returned in the Completion Date cell.