Here is a cool count-down timer application made in VBA to remind you about our VBAClasses registration closing time!
I know it is blindingly awesome. So I will give you a few seconds before reading further.
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Back already? Great.
I was thinking of ways to tell you that you have got less than 3 days to join our VBA Class. Then it struck me, why not make an Excel workbook to tell you how much time you have got? So I did just that.
Here is a video demo of how the VBA application works (watch on YouTube):
Download the VBA Classes Count-down Timer Workbook:
Click here to download the workbook. Please enable macros to see it.
PS: You must drag and drop this file in to Excel 2007 or above to see it.
How does the Count-down Timer Work?
First, I must tell you about its limitations:
- This workbook assumes that your computer is located at the hotspot (or city) you have chosen.
- The current time is fetched from your computer’s local time using NOW() formula.
Now, the basic construction of this workbook can be broken down to 3 parts:
- Hotspot / City Selection
- Countdown Timer
- Formatting
Hotspot / City Selection:
- I took an outline map of world and put it in an empty sheet. On top of this I have added 9 hotspots by drawing nine circles.
- I have named these hotspots spot1, spot2…,spot9
- As you can guess, each of these spots correspond to one time zone, from PST to Australian Time.
- I have assigned macros to each of them. The macros would just modify a cell named valSpot with the name of the spot on which I clicked.
- Based on the clicked spot, I fetched the corresponding closing time from a table like this:
- Then, I calculated the time left by subtracting current time from closing time.
- A similar logic is used for City selection.
Countdown timer:
- I have inserted a check box and linked it to a cell named showTimer
- I have also assigned a macro startTimer to the checkbox.
- The startTimer macro would call a different macro named – countDownTime()
- In this, I wrote a while loop that would check if the showTimer is true and ask Excel to update the currentTime once every second
- The code can be examined from the downloaded file.
Formatting:
I am leaving this to your imagination.
Bottom line: Join our VBA Classes
Of course, the whole point of this is very simple.
If you want to learn VBA, then please join our VBA classes. We will be closing registrations in 3 more days. After that we will be busy for next few months teaching VBA to those of you who joined us.
Click here to join our VBA Classes.
PS: When you join our VBA Class, you get to learn how this timer app is constructed in a detailed 40 minute lesson. That is just one of the many lessons in our class. So, join us already.
23 Responses to “Learn Top 10 Excel Features”
What it looks like if excel without formula?? 🙂
It would be not excel it would just be fancy tables in which you could just use power point. (Chandoo) would Access be an alternative?
Awesome piece of work!!!
Great article.
Chandoo - my biggest interest in the article was the awesome word-graphic at the top - where did you go to get it done into a shape?
@Rich.. thank you. I used http://www.tagxedo.com/ to generate this word cloud. I took all the comments in the original post, pasted them in tagxedo website and set up the shape etc.
Awesome Chandoo.. You need always needs coffee to start up with. BTW , how did u created the Heart Shaped picture filled with High Repetitive text in it .. Please put it on your Next blog ...
Chandoo, good article. I’ve added a link to it from Connexion – our collection of the most useful and interesting spreadsheet-related articles from the web. See http://www.i-nth.com/resources/connexion
Hi,
Just one small question. Where the hell have been I in the past for not discovering this website sooner?
I've lost a job interview recently where even though I had the subject knowledge, I was not upto their mark in Excel.
Thank you for all the free tips, guidance and for creating this forum environment.
[PS: I've just been through the site for the 1st time, and have signed up for the newsletter. You can expect pretty stupid questions from me soon]
Hy Chandoo, you always inspire me with to explore something new in excel. This data structure table is only for excel 2007 or compatible to 2010. I recently installed latest excel version 2013 in my System and experience problems regarding operating according to previous one. I'm waiting your article relates to that excel version.
Thanks
Awesome article Mr. Chandoo and that is a awesome heart shaped pic you created. Great tips as well.
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Chandoo is awesome..
Thanks, i got better, And i always get 90.50 in my grade card but now i get 96.50 i improved because of the tutorials you gave, Thank You Very Much Chandoo Guy.
Hi chandoo, i am intersted in seeing the video or step by step done procedure of analysing the comments and presenting in the data percentage steps. I think this one would be first step in finding out how generally happens data calculation. Thank you.
As well i would like to know how to get that black shape art of your face which i see in chandoo. I am interested in making it for me.
Nice to see the features considered by Excel users to be most useful. It might be a good idea to also analyze StackOverflow Excel questions to see what keywords appear most often.
Here are my top 10 Excel Features (for advanced users):
http://www.analystcave.com/excel-10-top-excel-features/
Thanks a ton for this it totally helped with my homework ????
Very good effort
Thank you for this. Lots of learning in the links you've provided for this septuagenarian.
Pls send me new post
Dude, your humor ? ?
Loved your work.
Hello Sir,
I am Sanjeev Khakre and i from Indore City, India , I am your big follower and i have watch your videos and learnt a lots of excel trick or function and many more . thanks so much for all of your excellent support.
Your excel knowledge is real awesome.
Thanks
Sanjeev
Your work is excellent but pls willing to know more details about the features of microsoft excel
Chandoo Would Access be a better alternative than VB?