Thanks for the replies and help!
I decided to get adventurous and try the Apple Script solutions I read about
(more details below). But yes, it seems funny Apple would take this feature
out, but I'm sure it will work it's way back in. After all, iOS has an easy way
of entering today's date, so I'm sure the Mac will get it too. And Gigi, yes,
if you enter the today() function, tomorrow when you open the spreadsheet it
will show tomorrow's date. Cutting and pasting is one solution, but apparently
that can mess up the formatting applied to that cell. You can, however, cut and
paste and match style.
Anyway, the solution I've settled upon is to create a service with Automator.
The service just runs the below Apple Script, and then I can set a keyboard
shortcut to activate the service. This is pretty much the same as what Tim
suggested, but can be achieved with one key press. You just drag "Run Apple
Script" from the actions library into the empty workflow area. I set the
Automator workflow to receive no input, and to work in Numbers only.
Here's the Apple Script to be copied and pasted into the workflow:
on run
set date_ to ((current date) as string)
set the clipboard to the date_
tell application "Numbers"
activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "v" using {shift down, option down, command down}
end tell
end tell
end run
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