Comments on: Conditional Formatting Corrupts Absolutely

By: Prakaseh

Prakaseh — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:38:00 +0000

Good Afternoon.

i want a formula to blinking my cell. not only cell but also whole words of cell and it blinking like star.

suppose there is one column which name is Result. velue of those cell are "Pass" or "Fail", and i want a formula to blink which's velue is "Fail". thats its.

i waiting for your positive reply in my mail

Prakash Makwana

By: Tushar Mehta

Tushar Mehta — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:11:00 +0000

For a way to introduce all sorts of formatting effects including blinking cells or blinking data points in a chart -- all without knowing VBA (except for a short routine that is provided to you) -- see http://www.tmehta.com/tmxl/dbfind_byid.asp?id=14

By: Marino

Marino — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:30:00 +0000

Is there a way to use Conditional Formatting
if there are empty cells? There are 3 values in one Column ex: below.

a1-blank
a2-blank
a3-black
a4-Value Needed "2?
a1-blank
a2-blank
a3-black
a4-Value Needed "3?
a1-blank
a2-blank
a3-black
a4-Value Needed "4?

thanksMarino

By: Sheila Thomson

Sheila Thomson — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:41:00 +0000

Do you know if there is any way to set more than 3 conditions? I’m using Excel 2000.

By: Jake Nash

Jake Nash — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:14:00 +0000

Thanks Mike, I would imagine it could become very irritating, much like Andyís comments !
Thanks

By: Mike M

Mike M — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:25:00 +0000

Here is a way to do it - Can't recall where I got it. I found it irritating!

DIM NextTime as date

Sub Flash()
' If you define a new Style (Format / Style / Flash/ Add )
NextTime = Now + TimeValue("00:00:01?)
With ActiveWorkbook.Styles("Flash").Font
If .ColorIndex = 2 Then .ColorIndex = 3 Else .ColorIndex = 2
End With
Application.OnTime NextTime, "Flash"
End Sub

By: Andy Miller

Andy Miller — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:46:00 +0000

Jake... the easy answer is "Why in God's name would you want to make your text blink?

The other answer is that you can't do it with conditional formatting.

You could do it, I think, with the Application.OnTime command, but it would eat up a lot of processor time.

By: Jake Nash

Jake Nash — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:30:00 +0000

Can you could use Conditional Formating to make the cells blink, just like a ' low fuel ' light on a cars dash board ?

I would imagine that you can write code to change the font colour to the backgroup and then back to red, and then run a loop to make it happen ever second or so. But, how would you keep the macro running even when you are navigating around the sheet ?

Master, I'm sure there are acient ways to make this work ?

Jake Nash