{"id":118,"date":"2010-07-27T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/spreadsheet-creativity-christmas-in-july\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:26:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:26:16","slug":"spreadsheet-creativity-christmas-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/spreadsheet-creativity-christmas-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheet Creativity: Christmas in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The local malls like to promote Christmas in July sales, so maybe you need a greeting card for this fake festive season.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dermot Balson, from Modelling in Excel, your Christmas dreams have come true. As a break from his serious actuarial work, Dermot created an animated card in Excel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"christmascard\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/christmascard.png\" alt=\"christmascard\" width=\"397\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dermot borrowed the text from an old greeting card, when he made this spreadsheet, many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>You could adapt it for different occasions, by changing the picture and text, and modifying Dermot&#8217;s code slightly, to adapt to the new graphic objects.<\/p>\n<h3>Download the Sample File<\/h3>\n<p>To see Dermot&#8217;s animated greeting, and the code that makes it work, download the <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Santa.zip\">Santa File<\/a> sample file.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: You&#8217;ll have to enable macros when you open the workbook, to see the animation.<\/p>\n<p>____________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local malls like to promote Christmas in July sales, so maybe you need a greeting card for this fake festive season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet-day","category-spreadsheets","tag-excel-greeting-card","tag-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}