Just because something is annoying doesn't mean it would be nice.
Most professionals I'm sure would disagree with you.

When you see something flashing in Excel it usually represents
bad coding (inefficient coding).

http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/eee/eee002.txt.

or you might just change the font and/or background with
Conditional Formatting without flashing
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/condfmt.htm

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"axled" wrote in message ...
This would be very nice for those involved in the financia lindustry who use
a DDE to monitor stock and futures pricing.

Under certain conditions the cell would flash

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