INTRODUCTION
Computer: “Good morning Boss!”
User: “How’s my system?”
Computer: “Good sir! Nothing to report!, how about you, how was your sleep last night?”
User: “Yeah, I’m good!, Is my breakfast ready?”
Computer: “That’s nonsense question sir, I don’t even know how to cook. Cook for yourself!”
User: “Yeah yeah, I’ll cook you later”
Talking to your computer? It sounds like crazy conversation, your just like talking to yourself. But actually, not like that, this SpeakToMe will assist you in complicated situations, such as helping you solve the problem without looking at your screen, also you can monitor your work in progress, many errors that we can’t solve, and lot more …..aaanndd it’s totally AWESOME! 😀
Let us begin with,
“while opening your excel file and let the SpeakToMe run”
SETTING UP YOUR VBA
You have to allow or enable the settings for macro to run the code
(File –> Option –> Trust Center –>Trust Center Settings –> Macro Settings –> Check “Enable all macros”)
HOW TO WORK IT OUT
Writing the Code
Look the Developer Tab on the ribbon
Click View Code
Under Microsoft Excel Objects (left pane)
Click “ThisWorkbook”
Then write this code;
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Dim SpeakToMe As Object
Set SpeakToMe = CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
SpeakToMe.Speak (“Good morning Boss!”)
End Sub
Note: You can change “SpeakToMe” to your preferred name)
(I’ll add code snippet, soon)
Testing your work
To test it out, hit F5 button
(Check, your volume so that you can hear the voice)
Save your file as SpeakToMe (Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook)
Hit Enter
Close the file and Open it again
MORE MORE MORE
You probably noticed, She (computer) said “Good morning Boss!”
Hmmm but what if, our time now is in the afternoon period, you opened the file in the afternoon, let’s say 5 pm
She said “Good morning Boss!”, ooohh how ignorant your computer is!
Well it seems that, some cases may consider this, like in businesses, even in the afternoon period you said to your customer “good morning”, this is acceptable for them but not in our case, we have to be accurate in our output. If it is morning period then say good morning, or if it is afternoon period then say good afternoon and so on.
For simplified statement
If it is morning (12 mn to 11:59 am) then
Good morning!
If it is afternoon (12:00 nn to 5:59 pm) then
Good afternoon!
If it is evening (6:00 pm to 11:59 pm) then
Good evening!
For the Code
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Dim SpeakToMe As Object ‘Declare as object
Dim TmeFmt As Integer ‘Declare our time as integer
TmeFmt = Format(Time, “h”)
Set SpeakToMe = CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
If TmeFmt < 12 Then
SpeakToMe.Speak (“Good morning, Boss!”)
ElseIf TmeFmt < 18 Then
SpeakToMe.Speak (“Good afternoon, Boss!”)
ElseIf TmeFmt < 24 Then
SpeakToMe.Speak (“Good evening, Boss!”)
End If
End Sub
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| Code |
Testing your work
Explanation
‘—————————–EXPLANATION——————————-
‘*1 We declared SpeakToMe to Object
‘*2 We declared TmeFmt to Integer
- ‘Declaration of a variable is much simple as declaring an item to different kinds of group
- ‘Say, I declare Item A as group B, which means Item A is in Group B
- ‘or I declare Item A as group A, which means Item A is in Group A
- ‘ For practice, Run this code
- ‘ Create 2 commandbuttons
For commandbutton1:
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim Trial As Integer
Trial = 1000 / 3
MsgBox Trial
End Sub
RESULT -> 333
For commandbutton2:
Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()
Dim Trial As Double
Trial = 1000 / 3
MsgBox Trial
End Sub
RESULT -> 333.333333333333
See the difference
If you want to learn more, click this url http://www.excel-easy.com/vba/variables.html
‘*3 TmeFmt = Format(Time, “h”)
- ‘ As a default the format of Time Function is e.g., “7:34:01 pm” try this code; make another CommandButton
MsgBox Time
- ‘ The output is your time now
- ‘But if you modify the time format like i did in the above code
- ‘Format(Time, “h”) which means I only include “h” as hour (this is a 24-hour format) that is, if my time period is 7:41:00 pm my “h” will be 19 but if my time period is 7:41:00 am my “h” will be 7
- ‘You can try this code; insert commandbutton
MsgBox Format(Time, “h”)
Click this link to learn more https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/gg251755.aspx
For CreateObject Function please refer to this link, below
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7t9k08y5(v=vs.90).aspx
That’s it, that was easy, now you have a talking excel whenever you open your file 🙂
ADDITIONAL
VBS: Using Notepad
You can also try this on a visual basic script or vbs using notepad
Procedures:
Open your notepad
Copy the code below then paste it to notepad and save it as SpeakToMe.vbs,
Execute it! (double click)
TmeFmt = Hour(Time)
Set SpeakToMe = CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
If TmeFmt < 12 Then SpeakToMe.Speak (“Good morning, Boss!”)ElseIf TmeFmt < 18 Then SpeakToMe.Speak (“Good afternoon, Boss!”)ElseIf TmeFmt < 24 Then SpeakToMe.Speak (“Good evening, Boss!”)
End If
Note: Be sure you’d save it as .vbs
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| This is the image of Visual Basic Script |
Note: You see there is a difference between the codes
VBA code: TmeFmt = Format(Time, “h”)
VBS code: TmeFmt = Hour(Time)
If you would like to run the code at the start up of windows you can refer to this link
DOWNLOAD SAMPLE FILE
Download SpeakToMe.vbs (Notepad)
Download SpeakToMe.xlsm (Microsoft Excel)
(if you don’t trust these files, scan first using your anti-virus or anti-malware)
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