conditional formulating

[francis]

Hi,
like to know if there's other ways besides validating the data changes by
colours for conditional formating. Looking for audio validation..ie having
the spreadsheet alerting me by making a sound when there's changes in the
data. Having pop up alerts will do. THe main purpose is that I do not want to
keep on monitoring the spreadsheet all the time to capture the changes in
data. The data are linked real time to websites, ie Foreign exchange rates.

[gearoi]

use msgbox and it'll pop up if you are running a macro which goes through the data.

really need more info to be more help

[francis]

Hi Gearoi,

i'm using the spreadsheet to help me to monitor if a page on Reuters is
updating correctly/promptly. right now first I copy the time stamp on the
Reuters page to a cell on Excel. Then on another cell, I will copy another
link from another Reuters page showing the actual time. If the page i'm
monitoring is updating, the conditional formatting on the third cell will be
white in colour. If the page is not updating; the timestamp on that page is
not the same as the actual time on another Reuters page, the third cell with
conditonal formatting will then turn red.
What i want to find out is if there's another more "active" way to monitor
besides going to the spreasheet to view it every now and then.I'm thinking if
the page is not updating for say more than 5 mins, a pop up will appear or a
sound will be heard simliar to what happened when we received a msg in MSN.
Hope the details helps and thanks for replying. hope to hear the good news
from you.

"gearoi" wrote:

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> use msgbox and it'll pop up if you are running a macro which goes
> through the data.
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> really need more info to be more help
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