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How to add the Current Date & Time in Excel file name in PAD

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Posted on by Ahmedmuz 203

Hi Team,

 

How to add the Current Date & Time in Excel file name in PAD please help

 

Example of Excel file name - Inputfile_07/18/2022.xlsx

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    ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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    Ahmedmuz 203 on at

    Hi 

    Thanks for the quick reply but can you show actually how we will add the current date along with the name please as im getting below error

     

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    ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Ah right, actually, you can't have slashes in file names, so maybe do underscores instead of slashes.

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    Ahmedmuz 203 on at

    thank you so much its working,, Can you show how to write date and time together as well please ?

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    ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    You can do this:

     

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