Execute Command/Sub-Procedure Using Timer in VBA

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» Execute Command/Sub-Procedure Using Timer in VBA

CATEGORY: Date & Time in VBA

VERSIONS: All Microsoft Excel Versions

This example demostrates how to use a timer to call up a sub procedure after a specific set time has passed.

TimeValue Function is used.

In this example, 3-seconds is assigned to the function.
The Application.OnTime alertTime statement is used to call up the sub procedure, msg, when 3-seconds is up.

Sub timerMsg()
Dim alertTime
MsgBox "The alarm will go off in 3 seconds!"
alertTime = Now + TimeValue("00:00:03")
Application.OnTime alertTime, "msg"
End Sub

Sub msg()
MsgBox "Three Seconds is up!"
End Sub

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Compile error "Method or data member not found"
Begginner wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST

On running the code above in Access
the .OnTime is highlighted and a message comes up saying:
Method or data member not found

Execute Command/Sub-Procedure Using Timer in VBA
rdwray@isp.com wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST

Took you code and pasted into excel after trying my own and cannot get either one to work in 2002.

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