Excel 2007 Animated Text

[Nadine]

Is there a way in Excel 2007 to make text animated, i.e. scrolling text, or
blinking text.

Thanks

 

[Harald Staff]

No, not without a very disturbing macro running.

Best wishes Harald

 

[JLatham]

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/BlinkingText.aspx

Should help if you really need to use such a feature.

 

[Kevin B]

You can use the code found at Chip Pearson's web site at the following URL to
produce blinking text:

http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/BlinkingText.aspx

However, I strongly suggest that you read the entire contents and most
importantly the summary so you'll know what you're getting.

This will work in Excel 2007 if you put it in a macro enabled workbook.

Hope this helps.

 

[Nadine]

Thanks, Read it.
do you know if there is a link for Scrolling text instead of blinking.

 

[Kevin B]

I believe that blinking text is about as good as it's going to get in Excel.

 

[Nadine]

Thanks. helpful

I believe that blinking text is about as good as it's going to get in Excel.

 

[Harald Staff]

You could add a webbrowser window onto your sheet, and then find some
scrolling text thing to put onto its source page that a macro builds. It
might even reduce the annoying (as in slows down Excel and destroys Undo
functionality) macro code needed, but it's pretty complicated to build.
Which may or may not make it fun to do.

Best wishes Harald

 

[Dave Peterson]

Or maybe you could just use MSWord. It has a lot of these type of formatting
bells and whistles.

 

[JLatham]

I think Kevin B has covered it. You could even build a scrolling text tool
based largely on Chip Pearson's code, but you probably wouldn't be happy with
it as the OnTimer in Windows can only go down to a 1 second interval, and
'scrolling' text at 1 character per second is pretty lame scrolling.