Forum Discussion
Auto on/off blink cells
I think making a cell blink is not a good idea:
- It becomes annoying very quickly.
- It can be dangerous to users who are susceptible to seizures.
Moreover, using Application.Wait makes Excel completely unresponsive.
It's better to draw attention to a cell by using a striking combination of text color, fill color and perhaps cell borders.
Thank you for your concern, but I truly do need this to work as needed to make this form as simple for 1 or 2 other users as possible.
reconfigure your macro to do the "loop" only once setting all of the corresponding cells you want to blink to the range you are 'blinking'. you can either use a Union operator or when defining the Range("cell1, cell2").
PS- I completely agree with Hans that this isn't a preferred method for a number of reasons. For me I agree with performance issue (but only a couple blinks shouldn't be too bad) but more so because if they don't see those couple of flashes then what? Also, this solution requires macros which means if they don't enable macros or go to excel online it doesn't work.
I agree bright RED cells with BOLD YELLOW Font or the such is better in the long run.
- Okay. I tried comma separation before, which did make all 3 cells blink, but it disregarded the "PARTS" condition and just blinked them all anyway. Simply use an & between range defs?
- Is there an "Or" union option to use here so they work independently of one another?
