In Excel, we can quickly and easily insert the workbook information, such as file name, file full path, current date and so on into the header or footer. But have you ever tried to insert last modified date and time of the worksheet into them? Excel doesn’t provide this feature for us to insert the last modified date in header or footer, and here, we will introduce you a handy way to solve it.

The following simple VBA code can help you to insert last saved date and time of the worksheet in to the header or footer, please do as this:

1. Activate your worksheet that you want to insert the last modified date into the header or footer.

2. Then hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

3. In the left VBAProject pane, double click ThisWorkbook to open the Module, then copy and paste the following code.

Insert last modified date in header or footer

Private Sub Workbook_BeforeSave(ByVal SaveAsUI As Boolean, Cancel As Boolean)


ActiveSheet.PageSetup.CenterHeader = "Last saved: " & Format(Date, "mm-dd-yy") & " " & Time


End Sub

4. Then save and close this code, and go to click View > Page Layout to view the result. And you can see the last modified date and time has been inserted into the center header. See screenshots:

Notes: The last modified date and time is updated automatically, when you modify and save the Excel file. If you need to insert this last saved date and time into the left header/footer, right header / footer or center footer, you just need to change the CenterHeader in the above code to your request.