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VBA - advanced videos | Excel VBA Part 44 - Making Excel Talk
Posted by Andrew Gould on 17 October 2016
One of Excel's more unusual features is its ability to speak to you! Not intelligently, of course, but you can make Excel vocalise a specific phrase or the contents of cells, or any other expression you can think of. This video shows you how to access the speech feature in Excel and use it to create a couple of small but fun examples.
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