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    Flashing/Blinking background color of cell when a specific text is entered

    Hi to all,

    I'm a beginner with VBA coding and I'm trying to figure out what to write as VBA macro in Excel.

    I want the background of a cell containing specific text "TBD" to flash from Red to White. For example, when someone enters "TBD" in the cell C10 and C28. I want the cells in the range C3:C31 to blink when the TBD is entered. See the attached file,

    Thanks for your help!

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    Re: Flashing/Blinking background color of cell when a specific text is entered

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    Re: Flashing/Blinking background color of cell when a specific text is entered

    I also read somewhere that the Surgeon General has determined that blinking cells might cause epileptic reactions with some persons..

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    Re: Flashing/Blinking background color of cell when a specific text is entered

    I would solve it like this.
    See attacment.
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    Re: Flashing/Blinking background color of cell when a specific text is entered

    Sorry for off-topic interjection:

    Although there is no official rule regarding this behavior, we request that wherever possible both the question AND the answer be provided in substantive detail here within the thread. An attached workbook is an excellent aid for posing a question and offering a solution, but solely doing that with no in thread explanation makes it difficult for researchers to understand or consider the Q & A of this thread without downloading what may be a pointless doc to them, if they can do that at all. Doing that also hides the content from search engines so others may never benefit from this.

    I'm sure you understand, and we look forward to seeing you post your formulas/macros in your posts for the searching benefit of all.

    Thanks again for all your hard work here!

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    Re: Flashing/Blinking background color of cell when a specific text is entered

    That is the code.

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    and a userform.
    That is all.

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