check out my calendars at:

http://au.geocities.com/windsofmark



However, if you want an Excel-based Calendar and schedule
list, then send the info to me and I will create it.

see my excel stuff at:
http://www.geocities.com/excelmarksway




- -Mark

-----Original Message-----

I'm trying to create a spreadsheet that allows you to
define maintenance
schedules for lanscape management work.

The items that are going to be in the maintenance
schedule generally
occur yearly (e.g. turf refurbishment) or monthly (e.g.
litter
collection, grass cutting).

I want to be able to have a dialog box appear that allows
the user to
specify for the yearly items what date of the year
maintenance occurs
(dd/mm/yyyy) or for the monthly items what date of the
month
maintenance occurs (dd/mm).

Does anyone have any ideas about how best to achieve
this? I thought
about have 3 textboxes with spinnerbuttons bound to them
so the user
can create their own dates by selected the dd/mm/yyyy
components
seperately, or maybe 3 drop down lists that do the same
thing.

However.......if I did this, how would I stop dates being
created that
don't actually exist? E.g. 30th February, 31st September
etc?

I suppose I could write an error handling routine for
each month
selected and check to see if the days selected for that
month fall
within an acceptable range e.g. range for September would
be:

Range
Septmember_Days = 1
September_Days < 31

The user would need to click an 'OK' button once they
have the date
entered as they want it, and then the date from the
textboxes is passed
to a variable, or perhaps stored in a cell somewhere.
Whatever, as long
as it's retrievable later on in the application.

But is there a better way of doing this? I would have
thought Excel
would have some kind of built-in calandar type function
to do this sort
of thing but I can't seem to locate it if it does.

Cheers
-Rob


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