Comments on: AC/DC Music Video Composed Using MS Excel

By: serdarb

serdarb — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:39:27 +0000

very nice post...

By: MicrosoftHatesBlackPeople

MicrosoftHatesBlackPeople — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:25:37 +0000

Neato...but no rama.
The lovely people at Microsoft decided not to include VBA macro support for Excel (or Word) in the 2008 Mac version. So if you're a Mac user with an updated Office package, you'll have to get your AC/DC fix someplace else (such as by urinating on an electric outlet).

By: WillF

WillF — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:49:05 +0000

What I want to know is where I can get my hands on the ASCII art video codec!

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:56:39 +0000

Ah! MS Excel, my favorite program : it has always made me forgive Microsoft for the blue screens of death...
Good post.

By: John Walkenbach

John Walkenbach — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:08:22 +0000

They embedded a WAV file, and used some VBA trickery to make an ASCII movie in range of merged cells.

For the VBA inclined, a few hints here:

http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/blog/ac_dc_video_in_excel/

By: ted

ted — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:33:23 +0000

From appearances, it just looks like they embedded a movie in the file. But I don't know enough about it. And, yes, I also wonder about the choice of artist.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:11:25 +0000

Holy wtf. Very Impressive!

This would have been ultimately cooler if they had used some other artist, maybe Snow Patrol. Sorry, but as cool as the result is, it can't be that hard to find a more 21st century band to debut it.

By: John

John — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:50:53 +0000

D'oh! Yes, .xls. Fixed now.

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:34:46 +0000

That goes against everything I have ever known.

By: Orjan Morjan

Orjan Morjan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:11:04 +0000

"You can even download the .exe file and run it on your own computer."
You mean the .xls file?
Wouldn't really be anything special in a .exe file that plays a movie.