Copy the contents and formatting of a cell if a column within the row = today() - vba

Question

I'm currently building a small project planner in Excel that uses the current date to plot coloured blocks under a date column to depict which stage of the project we are currently at for a particular customer (see image below).
Behind each of the coloured blocks is a drop-down menu populated by a list on another sheet. My aim is to search for the current date in cell A1 ( populated using today() ) within all columns that follow the freezed panes (depicted by the black right hand border). When the current date is found, the value of in each of the coloured blocks should be copied into the corresponding cells so that as the project progresses, a line of coloured blocks are entered for each day (with the relevant text from the drop-down depicting the current stage of that block).
Currently I am using the following formula copied into all cells that follow the freeze:
=IF(F$1 = $A$1,$C2,"")
However, when the current date is changed this merely moves the copied blocks across to the relevant column without maintaining the old values from previous days.
I've also attempted this with a VLOOKUP so that I can enter it into a macro and run if from a button but the layout does not allow for a successful VLOOKUP.
The simplest solution I believe would be to have a button that allows the user to save the current state of the column with a header that matches the current date however it has been some time since I have coded in VBA and do not remember how to do this.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but here goes...
Sub ColorCode()
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim rng As Range
Dim cel As Range
Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("SheetNameHere")
Set rng = ws.Range("F1:I1")***
For Each cel In rng
If cel.Value = ws.Range("A1").Value Then
ws.Range("C2:C8").Copy
ws.Range(Cells(2, cel.Column), Cells(8, cel.Column)).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues
ws.Range(Cells(2, cel.Column), Cells(8, cel.Column)).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormats
End If
Next
End Sub
If you add that to a new module, you can assign it to a command button. I haven't had a chance to test it, but it cycles through the dates in the first row to see if they match the date in A1. If they do, it copies over the values and formats from C2:C8(change if you need to) into the rows underneath that date. You may need to change some of the ranges to suit your specific worksheet.

Answer 2

So your requirements seem fairly straightforward to me:
you need the tracker to identify the column with today's date
you need to establish a permanent value for each day as it occurs
you need the color of today's values to be added to the cell, and stay that way even after today's date has passed.
The formula you cite in your question, if copied across all cells, will clearly just provide a value on the column for today's date, and unless you use a circular reference to let it self assess and update its value on today's date, it will not retain information when tomorrow comes.
Your idea for a button would work if you want the user to control the time of update, or you could have code that runs either when the workbook opens or when the worksheet itself is activated (placing it in the appropriate object code under either Private Sub Worksheet_Activate() or Private Sub Workbook_Activate().
I think PermaNoob has a right idea of copying the value of the column and pasting the value (rather than the formlula) into that column, but what is missing is appropriate identification of the column containing today's date and the coloring of those cells (if you don't have some method of coloring them that you did not mention). Something like this might work either attached to a button as you suggest, or to the _Activate event as I suggest. This is untested but should give you an idea of how to approach it:
Sub UpdatePlanner()
'~~>dim variables and set initial values
Dim wb As Workbook
Set wb = Workbooks("NAME or INDEX of YOUR workbook")
Dim ws As Worksheet
Set ws = wb.Worksheets("NAME or INDEX of YOUR sheet")
Dim rngHeader As Range
Set rngHeader = ws.Range("F1", ws.Range("F1").End(xlToRight))
Dim rngDate As Range
Dim rngColumn As Range
Dim rngCell As Range
'~~>loop to find the column with today's date
For Each rngDate In rngHeader
If rngDate.value = ws.Range("A1").value Then
Set rngColumn = ws.Range(rngDate.Address, _
ws.Range(rngDate.Address).Offset(65536, 0).End(xlUp)) 'this assumes
'your column may not have a value in every row
Exit For
End If
Next rngDate
'~~>copy and paste the column values and formats
With rngColumn
.Copy
.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues
.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormats
End With
'~~>loop to add the color formatting (since I don't see this in your formula)
For Each rngCell In rngColumn
If rngCell.value = ws.Range(Cells(rngCell.Row, 3)).value Then
rngCell.Interior.Color = _
ws.Range(Cells(rngCell.Row, 3)).Interior.Color
End If
Next rngCell
End Sub