Auto Date/Time stamp required for Numbers 3.1

I would like to automatically add a Date/Time stamp to the last column's cell, when a person's name is selected from the pop-up menu in Column C.
As a number of different people will be using the spreadsheet, I'd prefer not to have a keyboard short cut, as it can be easily overlooked.
I was wondering if it were possible to use a script to copy a cell's (column D) results, containing the 'NOW()' or 'TODAY()' function, and paste the results into the 2nd cell (Column E), allowing the last column's formula to reference the 2nd cell?
The formula in the last cell =if($C2="","",$E2) can then reference a static cell, rather than a live cell.
I know enough to be dangerous, so I'm not sure if i'm heading in the right direction.
Thanking you all in advance.

Hi Gordon,
Is this the same as a script?
Good question! It's fun to see people try to define what a service is. It may be one of the least understood and appreciated features on the Mac. It was certainly a mystery to me not long ago.
I think of a service as anything that can be made to appear in the Services menu. Apple has made that easy with Automator. You fire up Automator, create a new service "workflow" document, plop in a script, save, and see the result immediately in the Services menu. You can also send the .workflow package to someone else, who only needs to double-click to install it.
This particular date-time service contains a short AppleScript (you can view it by opening the .workflow in Automator. But other languages (Python, Perl, etc) and Unix utilities can be used too, as illustrated here.
Since Numbers has decent support for AppleScript, it is quite easy for the non-technical user to "bolt on" menu choices to do quite sophisticated things that are not built into the interface itself. I find it more accessible than (and just as powerful as) the VBA used for Excel macros. But that could be mostly a matter of familiarity. In any case, it adds a whole new dimension to Numbers.
SG

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Christine,
You can also ask in the Typography forum,
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The guy running whatfontis is a regular poster there.
And apart from
http://www.whatfontis.com/
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http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
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Hi Sahir
Thank you for your reply.
As I explained in my post, user details with date & stamp are coming when user enters some comments otherwise it is blank., All users may not enter comments because it is not a "required".
HR is needed this for audit purpose, just at end of the process they need to see all user names, date & stamp in the form. Forget about comment boxes, Can't we make just simple text fields with user details for each step (all 3 stages)?
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