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I forgot how to make a total flash/blink if its greater than zero. A few tips
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My personal view is that it's so irritating and potentialy harmful to some
people you shouldn't do it and with absolutely no evidence to support this I have always believed that's why the old BASIC 'speedink' command died the death. However if you must, look he- http://www.cpearson.com/excel/BlinkingText.htm Mike "Rev Keith" wrote: I forgot how to make a total flash/blink if its greater than zero. A few tips would help. |
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"Rev Keith" wrote:
I forgot how to make a total flash/blink if its greater than zero. A few tips would help. "Mike H" wrote However if you must, look he- http://www.cpearson.com/excel/BlinkingText.htm Hi Guys, If you want to preserve the Undo/Redo functionality, you may want to try this: 1) Create a named formula called TIMER =MOD(SECOND(NOW()),2)=1 2) Select the range you want to blink subject to a condition (or multiple conditions), say range A1:A100 3) Apply the following Conditional Format =TIMER*(A1<0) where (A1<0) is one of the many possible conditions. 4) put the following code into the VBA module of ThisWorkbook: Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean) StopBlinking End Sub Private Sub Workbook_Open() StartBlinking End Sub 5) put the following code into a standard module (say Module1): Dim dtNext As Date Sub StartBlinking() dtNext = Now + TimeValue("00:00:01") Application.Calculate 'or Application.ScreenUpdating=True Application.OnTime dtNext, "StartBlinking" End Sub Sub StopBlinking() Application.OnTime dtNext, "StartBlinking", schedule:=False End Sub -- KL [MVP - Microsoft Excel] RU: http://www.mvps.ru/Program/Default.aspx ES: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/?LN=es-es EN: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/?LN=en-us Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Kirill |
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From a previous post by JE McGimpsey:
US Government sites are prohibited by law from displaying flashing text (between 2 and 55 Hz) due to triggering seizures in those with photosensitive epilepsy. http://www.section508.gov/IRSCourse/mod02/021401--.html Many other organizations try to conform to section 508. -- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "Rev Keith" <Rev wrote in message ... I forgot how to make a total flash/blink if its greater than zero. A few tips would help. |
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"Bernard Liengme" wrote...
From a previous post by JE McGimpsey: US Government sites are prohibited by law from displaying flashing text (between 2 and 55 Hz) due to triggering seizures in those with photosensitive epilepsy. http://www.section508.gov/IRSCourse/mod02/021401--.html Many other organizations try to conform to section 508. .... If one's going for annoying, why not use a Calculate event handler to call a macro that uses Application.Speach.Speak to tell the user s/he screwed up then have it call itself repeatedly using Application.OnTime? |
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