Thursday 11 September 2014

Learn the flags

Ahoy there!

Last month I visited a naval base in Western Honshu (Japan). By "visit", I mean took a perfectly legal boat cruise around the habour and took photos that nobody arrested me for.

Anyway, in a nearby museum, I bought a souvenir towel with international maritime signal flags and, being weird, thought I'd like to make something in Excel to help remember them.

So I did. And here it is.

Learn mode (Sequential order)


Guess mode (Random order)


I even supplied the answers!


A note about Guess mode. Clicking the picture sets a timer that will show the answer (Slow = 4 seconds, Fast = 2 seconds) before showing the next picture to guess.

Here's the download link.

(I do realize there are other flags used, I'm just including the basic ones for now. And if you wish to change the answers to show different terminology, just change the ControlTipText of the controls on the ufAllFlags userform)

I'll be making variants of this, and other addins, in the near future.

See you next time.