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  Wednesday, September 19, 2007 – Permalink –

Clippy's Revenge pre-2007

Roll your own OA



The Office Assistant has taken a lot of hits, but it is missing in 2007, but still around in earlier versions.

If you want to play with it, see John Walkenbach's Create A Fake Clippy



Here is a creature you could use to replace Clippy:
Nerd Bird

There are other articles in the MS library about Agents and Assistants:
Animating Office Applications with Microsoft Agent

And:
Using the Office Assistant to Display Help


Programming the Office Assistant



The VBA help file give a list of motions for the assistants. Look for Assistants>Animation.
The code is simple:

With Assistant
.On = True
.Visible = True
.Move xLeft:= 400, yTop:= 300
.MoveWhenInTheWay = True
.TipOfDay = True
.Animation = msoAnimationGreeting
End With

Here are a few of the actions:


  • msoAnimationBeginSpeaking
  • msoAnimationCheckingSomething
  • msoAnimationGetArtsy
  • msoAnimationGetTechy
  • msoAnimationGetWizardy
  • msoAnimationRestPose
  • msoAnimationSendingMail
  • msoAnimationThinking
  • msoAnimationWorkingAtSomething
  • msoAnimationWritingNotingSomething
  • msoAnimationCheckingSomething
  • msoAnimationGetTechy
  • msoAnimationListensToComputer




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<Doug Klippert@ 7:45 AM

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