Hi,

I think generally if you want pretty things like Wordart then your better
using something other than Excel but there is a nice way of doing this
described here

http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.xlFAQ0007.html

It's not wordart but it does have the functionality your want in that it
displays a message and dies after a preset time.

Mike

"K" wrote:

I am using excel 2007. is it possible that when you open excel file
then a message should come up in wordart saying "SEE THIS"
then after 5 seconds it disappear. Basically i want some sort of macro
in excel file that when someone open the file a message should appear
for 5 seconds saying "SEE THIS" and then disappear but i not
want it in like message box. it should come in wordart. Please if
anybody can help