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Sometimes you might need to add delay into your application. You can use Sleep API but it blocks execution of current thread so your application becomes non responsive. But here is the simple trick to solve that problem and its easy to use. Click here to copy the following block Sub Delay(nMiliSec As Single)   Dim t1 As Currency   t1 = Timer   Do While True     If (Timer - t1) > (nMiliSec / 1000) Then Exit Do     DoEvents   Loop End Sub

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