How to make a cell blinking by conditional formatting?

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SURESH NEELMEGH
BANGALORE

 

[NickHK]

Apart from the fact that I personally find this very annoying, but may
adversely affect some people, here a couple of links.
Basically the answer "No" to your question, but there are other ways.

http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqFun.html#blink
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/BlinkingText.aspx

NickHK

 

[Guest]

NickHK has given you links to show how to accomplish this - I just thought
I'd add this to either add emphasis to or explain further his comment about
"adverse effects" some people may have:
http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/1194.21.htm#(k)
Once you read that and figure it out, it says that to minimize risk of
inducing a siezure in some folks, your blink rate should be slower than 2
blinks per second (very slow), or faster than 55 blinks/second: so fast as to
be steady to the human eye. Some folks find it annoying, especially if
there's no way to turn it off! But I realize that your request to do it via
conditional formatting would imply that there is some way to turn it off (by
entering some specific value).

Apart from the fact that I personally find this very annoying, but may
adversely affect some people, here a couple of links.
Basically the answer "No" to your question, but there are other ways.

http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqFun.html#blink
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/BlinkingText.aspx

NickHK

 

[Guest]

I vaguely remember the 'Speedink' command from early versions of basic
presumably ditched because of the risks of these strobe effects

Mike

NickHK has given you links to show how to accomplish this - I just thought
I'd add this to either add emphasis to or explain further his comment about
"adverse effects" some people may have:
http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/1194.21.htm#(k)
Once you read that and figure it out, it says that to minimize risk of
inducing a siezure in some folks, your blink rate should be slower than 2
blinks per second (very slow), or faster than 55 blinks/second: so fast as to
be steady to the human eye. Some folks find it annoying, especially if
there's no way to turn it off! But I realize that your request to do it via
conditional formatting would imply that there is some way to turn it off (by
entering some specific value).