AC/DC Music Video Composed Using MS Excel

Phil Clandillon and Steve Milbourne of Sony/BMG have composed a video for AC/DC's "Rock N' Roll Train" using Microsoft Excel. You can even download the .xls file and run it on your own computer.

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/10/acdc-music-vide.html via J-Walk Blog

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very nice post...

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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).

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

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

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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/

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