J-Walk & Associates, Inc.

Animated Color Scales

Description: A 62x62 range of cells contain simple formulas that use the SIN and COS functions. Color Scales conditional formatting is applied to the range. Click a button, and the colors change randomly. Click another button, and the image rescales randomly. Click the third button, and it moves. Good clean fun for the entire family.

NOTE: This will not work in versions prior to Excel 2007.
Has Macros? Yes
Download: animatedcolors.xlsm

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This section contains free Excel workbooks and add-ins. With a few exceptions, all of these files were developed by me -- John Walkenbach. Some of the files demonstrate useful techniques that you can adapt to your own work. Others are simply for fun.

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