Read what's new in Alerts version 2.71.

Alerts Demo

Alerts Explained

• The Spinnaker Alerts Add-in provides the spreadsheet user with a versatile tool to signal critical changes in the spreadsheet. Spinnaker Alerts can utilize the worksheet change event or the query update event to trigger in the form of cell coloring, custom audio, pop-up screen messaging, logging, the execution of a macro of your choice, and E-mail paging. E-mail paging works with Microsoft® Outlook® 97 and later, or with CDO (a web based E-mail client for which you only have to supply an E-mail address and a mail server). Recommended for trading professionals, stock investors, analysts, process managers, etc.

• Cost $90.00 for the standard version, $150.00 for the enhanced version. Any Questions? Contact us at getinfo@spinnakeradd-ins.com.

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• Any messaging is totally customizable. For instance, you can record and play back your own audio alerts.

• You can set the criterion or criteria for any target cell. The cell can be color coded as to whether the cell value went up or down from baseline. You can also determine whether or not it is the highest or lowest value for that session.

• Applications for this add-in could be: Queries, Web-Queries, Real time DDE links, stock trading, process monitoring, budgeting, projections, monitoring deadlines etc.

• The standard version of this add-in can be registered at a price of $90.00. The version that can run macros, and send E-mail pages costs $150.00. To upgrade at a later time you just pay the difference between the two versions. The trial period is 10  days of use.

New in version 2.71 as of 3/12/09:

• We have added the capability for dynamic alert names. When you (re)name an alert, you can now make the name be a cell reference in your worksheet instead of manually entering each alert name in the edit alerts dialog. The advantages of this are that new alerts can automatically get a custom alert name. You can even change the alert name by simply changing the cell that has the name in it. If you use a default profile to create new alerts, the new alerts will have names based on the cell reference, not just "new alert 2", etc.
• We added a warning for when you use a query update to trigger alerts. The refresh interval of a query is usually set to only once every minute, or even a few minutes, so you may have to wait for the alerts to go off.
• When you select a sound, the program will first show all the sound files in the windows system media directory, but if you choose a different directory and select a file there once, that path will be recorded in the active workbook. From then on, Alerts will "know" where the soundfiles for the active workbook are stored.
• When you record a sound the program will set the save directory to the windows system media or the path you chose a sound file from the last time. This way your custom sound files are easily accessible for later retrieval.
• When you start a new file with alerts, the default is now that alerts go off at the first change in the sheet. If this causes problems you can uncheck the "Run on First Change" box in the edit alert options dialog.
• We fixed a bug: When you want to change the alert range to a different sheet, it wouldn't take the different sheet. This version fixes that problem.

Previous updates

• February 2007 version 2.27 is released. Some very interesting changes were made.