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    Function Tips

    There have been a few User Defined Functions submitted as KB entries recently. Is it possible for Excel to show Function Tips for UDFs the way it does for built-in functions?
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    Yes, but you have to put them in the excel sheet where you would assign shortcuts...ALT-F8 > EDIT > Options

    YOu can type the description there.......I have not yet figured out how to do that bit programattically yet though...but that is where the option is to put a description of the function...
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    Hi guys,

    Mr Laurent Longre have an add-in that may be useful in this context:

    http://xcell05.free.fr/ (Click on the English-button)

    Kind regards,
    Dennis
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    If I am on track with what you are asking for.......you can use MacroOptions to assign some basic text about what the function does....there are some others methods I have seen, but none reliable besided the method Laurent Longre provides in Dennis's link
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    Thanks all,
    It was this display I was thinking of.
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    Is that display a new feature?

    I don't seem to have it in Excel 2000.

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    It's a 2003 feature. I happened across a blog on Excel 12, and I see that Intellisense is coming to the worksheet, so maybe I'll just have to wait.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Norie
    Is that display a new feature?

    I don't seem to have it in Excel 2000.
    It was implemented in XL2002 aka XP.

    Patrick

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    I'm guessing this can't be done, or in any case not easily.
    Thanks for the help.
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